Re: AtDDtA1: Garçons de '71

[David Morris]

"sides?" GR 520

"all theatre" GR 521

"There's something still on, don't call it a 'war' if it makes you
nervous, maybe the death rate's gone down a point or two [...] but
Their enterprise goes on" GR 628

"the real War is always there" GR 645

On 1/25/07, Otto <ottosell at googlemail.com> wrote:
> "As the ordeal went on, it became clear (...) how much the modern State depended for its survival on maintaining a condition of _permanent siege_ — through the systematic encirclement of populations, the starvation of bodies and spirits, the relentless degradation of civility until citizen was turned against citizen, even to the point of committing atrocities (…)." (19)

In the context of these very-related GR quotes, it becomes clear that
even the entity of a "modern State" is an artificial, "theatrical"
construct in Pynchon's cosmos.  War, then is the force which keeps the
powers able to maintain the fiction of a "State."  And, as in GR, the
reality behind both War and State, the real War, are *They*, the Vibes
behind all the theater.

David Morris