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[János Székely]

Well yes,
"his arms and his legs it seems woven among vessels and ducts" (469)
and
"His bared limbs in their metal bondage writhe among the fuel, oxidizer,
live-steam lines" etc. (751).

A-and during that orgasm Slothrop has the plastic knight in his pocket
"--a-and wait'll Slothrop finds out what kind of plastic, boy!" (436). Maybe
this is when he finds out.

János

2008/12/29 <kelber at mindspring.com>

> Another Slothrop-Gottfried connection:  p.469-470, where Slothrop finds
> himself inside his own cock:  "He is enclosed.  Everything is about to come,
> come incredibly, and he's helpless here in this exploding enterprise... red
> flesh echoing... an extraordinary sense of waiting to rise..."
>
> This could easily be a description of Gottfried in the rocket.  It happens
> when Slothrop's having sex with Bianca, and there's a tie-in between the
> three as abused children, and all children whose futures are compromised by
> The Bomb.
>
> Laura
>
> -----Original Message-----
> >From: János Székely <miksaapja at gmail.com>
>
> >
> >Having just re-read GR for word-by-word (not for the second time)
> something
> >struck me. I don't know if anybody has noticed or written about the
> >following.
> >
> >Close to the geometrical center of the book there is a well-hidden,
> >comically-camouflaged passage about the USS Badass missing the hijacked
> >U-Boot. The two courses intersect in space but not in time* because*
> Bodine
> >has laced the coffee in the Badass mess with "a massive dose of
> Oneirine".So
> >the psychotropic effect of Jamf's drug turns into physical reality in some
> >unexplained way.
> >Now both Imipolex G (a polyimide) and Oneirine (an indole) are Jamf's
> >inventions, both are aromatic heterocyclic compounds and their monomers
> are
> >rather similar. Even the smell can be the same. The combined presence of
> >Imipolex G (responsible for sexual arousal) and Oneirine (responsible for
> >the time-modulating, delusion-turned-into-reality effect) could account
> for
> >both Slothrop's map and the closing two subchapters, where, if we stick to
> >narrative continuity, the same rocket which was launched with Gottfried
> >inside in 1945 returns sometime in the Nixon era. (There is an explicit
> >parallel between Slothrop and Gottfried as the latter "knows" the smell of
> >Imipolex. "It was in a room when he fell asleep so loing ago, so deep in
> >sweet paralyzed childhood," suggesting he was also conditioned in a way by
> >Jamf. Slothrop also recognizes the smell. But that might be also the smell
> >of Oneirine.)
> >This is not an explanation, just a "closing in on", not forgetting that
> the
> >description if the  "Oneirine haunt" can be easily applied to Pynchonic
> >fiction itself etc., starting new cycles of interpretation.
> >
> >János
>
>
>
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