GRGR 1,3 invocation of the muse / Bloat (c'est moi) and the map / erotics

[Cometman]

1) not only is the smell of the bananas "musaceous" but Bloat's
carrying a "musette" bag.  Since this is still early days, why not
think Pynchon is invoking the muse

2) the map - Bloat having heard of the map, heads there with his camera
just as I, having read of GR in 1973, headed there with my nascent
reading abilities

just as Slothrop has found the romantic possibilities in London,
Pynchon has found the novelistic potentials in, oh everything I've
learned in school so far and then quite a bit more.

just as Bloat wonders what the colors of the stars signify, I wonder
what Pynchon means by his depictions.  

We'll find out in 1,4 that Slothrop thinks that all the girls are
beautiful and is using the colors to describe his interior moods, but
of course the White Visitation crowd can still use the implications of
this to arrive at various useful insights...

so maybe the prose and poetry are meant to celebrate internal states in
the author - but of course these still may have meaning that we can
decipher and use in getting to know him - both Slothrop and Pynchon -
better, and by extension, ourselves and the world too) 
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Glenn Scheper wrote:
>One of the keys to poetics, I say, is to recover the taboo ideas
>of auto-erotics: autofellatio informs the ontology of both poets
>and avatars. Staying keen on these sexual bases, I recognize the
>pointing tramp, treated as if an "other" in GR, is his own penis.

this does have a ring of truth...recent discussion of Norman O Brown
would point this up...Reich's orgone theory might play a part too (he
suggested that fascist political structures resulted from frozen orgone
flows, as I recall)