Fwd: GRGR 1:3, Slothrop's Desk

[jporter]

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> From: Brent Dannell <bdannell at gmail.com>
> Date: November 10, 2005 10:03:35 PM EST
> To: jporter <jp3214 at earthlink.net>
> Subject: Re: GRGR 1:3, Slothrop's Desk
>
> Actually there is a fair amount of organic material on the desktop:
> paper, wood, rubber; coffee, tea and milk stains; Slippery Elm
> Lozenges.... I think of it as fertilizer for Slothrop; instead of 
> bananas,
> you have the map, evidence of his priapic activities.  If he was as
> uptight about orderas Tantivy, he probably wouldn't get laid as much.
>

> On 11/10/05, jporter <jp3214 at earthlink.net> wrote:

> The obvious comparison/contrast is with the rooftop garden of
>> the previous section. No amazing fecundity here, however. There
>> is no central inner organizing principle amongst this detritus-
>> no chains and molecular spirals dedicated to asserting through
>> structure the conjuror's secret- and no conjuror's apprentice to
>> tend to this mess. The "gardener," one Lt. Tyrone Slothrop, is out
>> to lunch.
>>
>> In this transitionary section between the character of Pirate and
>> Slothrop, we are introduced to Slothrop first through his artifacts.
>> We seem to be transitioning from the organic, with its nearly
>> magical ability to recycle itself back into recognizable forms
>> of life, into the inorganic, and not just the inorganic, but the
>> detritus of a whole series of commodities, each designed and
>> produced by a "top down" cultural process, for some marketable
>> project.
>>
>> Hasty judgments regarding the two: the seemingly "good and
>> natural" garden, and the entropic waste of the desk- not to
>> mention between Pirate and Slothrop- might be unwise, however,
>>  given the subtleties of this text.
>>
>> jody
>>
>>