Gegen den Tag

[Thomas Eckhardt]

robinlandseadel at comcast.net schrieb:

>The novel's "Iceland Spar" episode serves to send us reeling back into 
>mythic time, the time of the creation of Norse Myths, myths that develop 
>into material objects, War-Gods finding physical manifestation as V-2's 
>and other deadly objects. 
>
This may well be the case. I was thinking of double refraction as a 
structural metaphor with regard to the doubles and mirror images in the 
novel. I have not been able to follow the group reading but this has 
certainly been discussed in detail on the list.

>One can look at Math or Science or 
>Technological needs or the development of the Military-Industrial
>complex as TRP's dominant metaphors. I see Magick as just as big, 
>if not bigger, metaphor of the complex functions within TRPV's writing. But
>at the end of the day, all the brass rings he's reaching for are all
>Literary.
>  
>
I am not sure whether I can follow. The relationship between the 
development of mathematics, science, technology and the rise of the 
Military-Industrial-Complex on the one hand and the Magick the Indians 
know on the other is certainly one if not the dominant theme of 
Pynchon's writing. I would not call mathematics, science, technology or 
magic metaphors, though, as my area of expertise obliges me to use the 
term "metaphor" in a narrower sense.

Thomas