Fugue

[Paul Mackin]

In The Kindly Ones the protagonist, by this time in a pretty disassociated 
state himself, along with a fellow officer and their driver, separated from 
their regiment and trying to dodge the advancing Red Army enters a church 
and finds an old man, very aristocratic,  playing the Art of the Fugue on 
the chuch organ. Normally this would have been soothing but now it 
infuriates him. He pulls out his Luger and shoots the man in the head. He 
explains to his comrade "It's because of the corrupt Junkers that Germany is 
losing the war. National Socialism is collapsing and they're playing Bach."

----- Original Message ----- 
From: <brook7 at sover.net>
To: <pynchon-l at waste.org>
Sent: Monday, April 06, 2009 7:24 PM
Subject: Fugue


>I continue to think about the gem Robin points us to of the double meaning
> and double appearance  of the radio fugue/fugue state image/phrase.  This
> whole scene of a clan awakening and the different needs and methods people
> use to adjust to the day , get their bearings, food/fuel of choice,
> distraction of choice, game,  opportunity of choice is P 's own
> list-making Fugue.  Some in the camp feel disconnected from the info flo
> that is the new commons, some prefer the connections of family and place.
>
> All through this section there is a theme of real and false history  and
> of a society that recreates itself  through the stories  and music it
> takes in, the media that tramsmits it,  the games it plays, and  how and
> whether it responds to  the messages  that come in, how it sorts the
> important from the trivial.
>
> brook 7 is joseph T  our phone line is still down.
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