GRGR Section 1 - Vagitus

[Paul Mackin]

On Nov 1, 2005, at 3:16 PM, David Meury wrote:

> Ghetta Life wrote regarding _Love's Body_:
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>>> This is too much of a tease.<<
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> I was sort of hoping to pass the ball on this since
> Norm seems to me like Freud on acid or our own Mr.
> Scheper -- a bit too radical for me.  I won't have
> access to my copy of the book until this evening but
> I'll take another look at it.  I was browsing in it
> last weekend and noting labyrinth / dream / death /
> anal-birth (!) connections with the opening section of
> GR.
>

How about also the fact that both writers use the metaphor of  
"theatre." To Pynchon the evacuation is all theatre, meaning I  
presume that it is only pretend. It is not intended that anyone  
actually be saved. Or perhaps Pynchon means the evacuation is only  
symbolic.  I don't have the Brown book but see if there isn't in it  
the notion that EVERYTHING is symbolic: sex, politics, etc. But  
returning to  Pynchon I think somewhere in Love's Body it says that  
political behavior is theatrical behavior.

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