Zoyd [IV spoiler]

[alice wellintown]

I don't think that characters are all that important in P's novels,
but that's another matter.
But innocense is long lost in his works, paradise is lost.
He is, in my opinion, the darkest romantic in the American Tradition.
He makes Melville and Eliot look cheerful.
His novels scold the revisonists who would try to name angels and demons.

That scene with Hope in IV made me ill.   But, the baby seemed OK.

There are still mysteries only Mother Earth holds in her great green
breast. There are still Wonders. That reading of the Orphic
Song--Rilke.

But it's a gnostic world. Religion is Politics is Religion.


But I disagree with David Morris about the children.

Frenesi's friends advise her to read Trotsky to the baby and put LSD
in the baby's formula.

Zoyd takes LSD at the birth and celebrates not his daughter, the side
of beef TV kid, but his TRIP.

The kid who asks for gum in GR; he's experienced.

Many are the children who would, like the kids in 1984, Rat out their
Mother & Father.

A GRIM Pheonix.

OK, where is my ride?