VLVL Morning glory: Thanatoids rise to the occasion

[Otto]

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From: "jbor" <jbor at bigpond.com>
To: <pynchon-l at waste.org>
Sent: Wednesday, May 12, 2004 12:58 PM
Subject: VLVL Morning glory: Thanatoids rise to the occasion


> While I'm somewhat amused by the irony of someone confessing to being
> tickled and pleasuring himself yet unable to recognise the possible pun in
> the Bach title 'Wachet Auf', I will admit that I'm at a loss as to the
> significance of the scene on pp. 324-5. If the Thanatoids are experiencing
a
> unique, presumably happy, "resurrection" of some description then what is
> the "long, desolate howling" which ensues? How is Takeshi connected, both
in
> respect of the sound chip he has had a hand in "expedit[ing]", and in
terms
> of he and DL "hav[ing] to respond" to what they hear on Radio Thanatoid?
Is
> it all just an excuse for a couple of bad puns and a zany non-resolution
to
> a correspondingly zany, but ultimately superficial sub-plot?
>
> best

What do you precisely mean by "superficial sub-plot"? The Thanatoid-thing or
the whole Takeshi-DL episodes?

Otto