Enzian and Tchitcherine

[Brock Vond]

i think / agree with critics like Eddins and Moore...

it's because tchitcherine and slothrop are both terrified of (and  
seeking) "blackness" (S-Gerat [sic?] and Enzian [sic])

they also double each other through most of the novel... both quests  
have holy centers (test stand and Kirghiz light) both are monitored by  
shadow-powers... both experience a magical removal from the text...  
(slothrop literally and T- through Geli's earthly magic)....

B

If you trace out Gottfried and Slothrop's geographical journies...  
they are both opposite parabolas... Slothrop from London to S. France  
to N Germany... Gottfreid... well... Peenemunde [sic] in the rocket  
therefore creating his arc... to London (if we assume that regardless  
of the book's fantastical possibilities and blicero's obsessions,  
Gottfried met a death somewhere in London the parabolas are mirror  
images)

...and I wonder what one would find if they compared Slothrop and T-'s  
or T- and Enzian's...

sorry for misspellings of names... i didn't feel like checking and  
correcting.



On Jul 18, 2008, at 11:11 AM, rich wrote:

> Tchitcherine does mention while being interrogated that he objects to
> being passed over which connects to the Herero's concept of same
> during their extermination and Vaslav's own failure to move past the
> leading edges of revelation
>
> rich
>
> On Fri, Jul 18, 2008 at 9:34 AM, David Morris <fqmorris at gmail.com>  
> wrote:
>> He's trying to eliminate his "shadow," his black (br)other.
>>
>> On Thu, Jul 17, 2008 at 1:30 PM, rich <richard.romeo at gmail.com>  
>> wrote:
>>> almost done with another re-read of GR.  Can anyone adequately  
>>> describe the reason Tchitcherine is obsessed with killing his half- 
>>> brother Enzian? don't really understand his personal motivation  
>>> here--is it just a Cain and Abel deal?
>>>
>>> rich
>>>
>>