Pynchon's layered moralism or Send in the Clowns, pp 678ff (again)

[Mark Kohut]

Kai wrote:
 
"Doubles work as bilocations on the level of persons. So Bilocation appears to be the
missing link. Interestingly enough, Niklas Luhmann's theory of social systems considers
the emergence of doubles or Doppelgänger in modern literature since the Romantik
(think of E.T.A. Hoffmann!) as an indicator that modern society has switched from first
order observations to second order observations. So art, like other outdifferenciated
functional systems, is according to Luhmann not about observing the world as such but
about observing observers. "

great connections which fed this:
 
I called Neville and Nigel nice guys, not precise, they are clowns here.....with the seltzer bottle
twitting the T.W.I.T.s...........N & N as clowns brings back the social world as circus motif
in AtD, yes?......(M. Moorcock, writer, publisher who published early TRP story(ies) called
AtD a massive circus novel in his review, check it out at the wiki)....."see buskers pranced and
spun before the theatre queues, etc."........(Cf. "It's all theatre now"--GR).....gay street circus
and theater entertainment.........which is a MUSICAL based on the story/actions of Jack the Ripper
one of the first famous secret serial killers (of strangers) who, I believe, is later linked in AtD to 
the "serial killings"  by the Nazis and others in History.........
 
A--and polite bourgeois English society turns Jack into musical entertainment!..... as Pynchon observes
the observers of mass murderers in the world......and sees a circus, not a "proper' response..[comment; refute]
but a kind of neuropathic response..............societal responses that should never allow such evasion of the reasons
for a mass murderer are glorified........turned into fun.........society's moral nerve endings dulled, so to speak.
 
More two cents,
Mark


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