Slothrop's deconstruction, beginning on p.231 (Bantam)

[kelber at mindspring.com]

Turn on, tune in, drop out ...

Withdrawing, refusing to engage as the only option when confronting the military-industrial complex?  It works in the animal kingdom (possums and such), but it's not the best way to effect change.  Hell, though, it's an attractive lifestyle.

Laura

-----Original Message-----
>From: Tore Rye Andersen <torerye at hotmail.com>
>Sent: Mar 15, 2009 8:09 AM
>To: pynchon-l at waste.org
>Subject: RE: Slothrop's deconstruction, beginning on p.231 (Bantam)
>
>
>D. Patty:
> 
>> (Full disclosure: I'm working from the bias of my own read on
>> things, that the dissolution of Slothrop's personality is in fact
>> the only way for him to completely escape Their grasp [...].
> 
>Yup, sounds just about right. Slothrop's implicit choice is the same as 
>Pökler's, between "personal identity and impersonal salvation" (GR 406, 
>473 in the Bantam edition). Slothrop opts for dissolution and impersonal 
>salvation - surely not a desirable fate.
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