IVIV (12): 195-197

[John Carvill]

<< Tore:

...And I am constructing a reading that points a finger
at Technology, the vast Moloch, the many-headed monster that interferes
with our lives and our planet in so many unpleasant ways, but a reading
which also points out that that monster wouldn't be moving at all if we
didn't have our hands up its ass.
>>

Well put!

And once we get our hand up its ass, we soon find it has its hand up
our ass, and so on. Kinda like Kekule's snake dream, 'cept we're
awake.

That passage of GR, and GR in general, and Pynchon in general, does of
course work on many levels, a fact which cuts both ways. One one hand,
that's why we like Pynchon so much, at least in part; but the downside
is that the multi-levelled, allusive, amorphous nature of the text
(and what's being said in it) allows for people to spin it any way
they choose, and if taken to extremes this spinning can reach the
point where all discussion is pointless, where trying to argue
for/against a given interpretation becomes simply absurd. And that
point, or somewhere well past it, is where I tend to find Alice's
posts landing, a lot of the time.