Fugue

[rich]

Ah yes--forgot about that

he also enters such a state when shooting Jews at Babi Yar and when he
kills his mother and stepfather.

Rich

On 4/7/09, Paul Mackin <mackin.paul at gmail.com> wrote:
> 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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