TMoP: Pattern

[Mark Kohut]

Regarding my certain slant of vision on everyone's fine obs...

Is Coetzee having D. react to ingesting Death, so to speak, as in the words
about Pavel's felt Presence?....

And, full of death, D. is so anti-life here?...(from wanting to hurt/kill
children---what D. said was the irreducible problem of evil embodied in
Brothers K. (thru Ivan). 

He is wrestling with evil...(death).

Mark


--- On Tue, 9/30/08, David Morris <fqmorris at gmail.com> wrote:

> From: David Morris <fqmorris at gmail.com>
> Subject: Re: TMoP: Pattern
> To: "Bekah" <Bekah0176 at sbcglobal.net>
> Cc: "Glenn Scheper" <glenn_scheper at earthlink.net>, "P-List" <pynchon-l at waste.org>
> Date: Tuesday, September 30, 2008, 8:26 AM
> These lines speak of a beastliness in D.  He admits just
> earlier that
> he's unfit for humanity, and just after this he says
> that he's been
> for a while beyond or without (I don't remember) shame
> in his writing
> and now in his actions.  The border between the two has
> been breached.
>  Is he acting like a character in one of his books?  Or is
> he
> observing his own now unfettered actions for material to
> write about?
> 
> In some sense in this small little scene he has just raped
> a child,
> and is in the process of cannibalizing his dead son.
> 
> David Morris
> 
> On Mon, Sep 29, 2008 at 11:14 PM, Bekah
> <Bekah0176 at sbcglobal.net> wrote:
> >
> > D.  stares at her with "what can only be
> nakedness" after which she "flees the room."
> ...   "he will not forget and may even one day rework
> into his writing."
> >