Fugue
Paul Mackin
mackin.paul at gmail.com
Tue Apr 7 09:12:05 CDT 2009
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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