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[mikebailey at speakeasy.net]

robinlandseadel's like,
> >Again, consider the regional boundaries in this passage of Tesla's:
....
> >Pynchon's notions concerning regional/national boundaries are 
> >central to GR (the
> >"Zone", after all. is a temporary region of Anarchy), M & D and AtD. 
> >And Trieste
> >is an exemplar of that sort of stateless floating world:

you're saying Pynchon is crediting statelessness for 
Tesla's visionary abilities.  

Various Pynchon passages (Roger & Jessica, eg)
suggest he may believe that a ubiquitous chest-thumping polis 
distracts from important visionary and emotional experiences 
in the lives of its subjects.  

I wasn't thinking this was one of those passages; 
I was thinking he meant the mountainous terrain...
 But Tesla does devote quite a bit of talk at the political level here...

Richard Fiero objected
> . . .
> Tesla's later years have been traditionally described as unbalanced 
> and obsessive and the result of emotional appeasement 

appeasement?  compensation maybe?

> for the early 
> death of his brother. I don't think the author is in this case 
> instructing us in geopolitics. "Visual experiences"? That's Tesla. 
> 

Pynchon's view of Tesla doesn't seem to be focussing on
impairment here.  My strongest take was of Tesla reliably recounting
his vision, and the influence of nature, especially 
mountainous caves - but also storms --- 

---like the one Kit just passed thru, and which he will
foist off as a counterfeit religious life-changing experience --
sort of a tainted double to Tesla's storm-driven vision 
in the cave...

Vibe fils entices him to lie to Vibe pere...
exactly the corruption process described by Vanderjuice...
...though it takes him to Goettingen which Vanderjuice 
did recommend, still it's under a false flag