V-2nd C4 Allografts

[Mark Kohut]

And then there is TRPs respect--shown by massive homage in GR---
for Norman O. Brwon who pushed the pleasure principle about as far 
as it could go.......................



----- Original Message ----
From: Ian Livingston <igrlivingston at gmail.com>
To: Dave Monroe <against.the.dave at gmail.com>
Cc: pynchon -l <pynchon-l at waste.org>
Sent: Tue, August 3, 2010 2:15:59 PM
Subject: Re: V-2nd C4 Allografts

Dave Monroe wrote:

> "This mineral period"
>
> I.e., of "believing himself no more animate than ..." ...

See Freud, Beyond the Pleasure Principle (Norton, 1959, 1961):

"Let us suppose, then, that all the organic instincts are
conservative, are acquired historically and tend towards the
restoration of an earlier state of things.... [I]t must be an old
state of things, an initial state from which the living entity has at
one time or other departed and to which it is striving to return by
the circuitous paths along which its development leads. If we are to
take it as a truth that knows no exception that everything living dies
for internal reasons--becomes inorganic once again--then we shall be
compelled to say that 'the aim of all life is death' and looking
backwards, that 'inanimate things existed before living ones'" (45-6).


On Mon, Aug 2, 2010 at 10:05 AM, Dave Monroe <against.the.dave at gmail.com> wrote:
> "His name was Halidom and he favored allografts ..." (V., Ch. 4, p. 101)
>
>
> AEF
>
> American Expeditionary Forces
>
> http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/American_Expeditionary_Forces
>
>
> Halidom
>
> "The word signifies something held sacred, perhaps referring to the
> young doctor's 'ideas of his own.'"
>
> --Grant, p. 63
>
>
> allografts
>
> "The more accurate word would be 'xenograft.'  An allograft is a graft
> from a donor of the same species of the recipient, which in fact is
> what Schoenmaker offers."
>
> --Grant, p. 63
>
> http://www.ugapress.org/index.php/books/companion_to_v/
> http://books.google.com/books?id=JZyY6bmfaJ0C
>
>
> "the introduction of inert substances"
>
> Cf. ...
>
> "bodily incorporating little bits of inert matter" (V., Epilogue, Sec.
> III, p. 542)
>
>
> "ivory ... silver ... paraffin and celluloid"
>
> Colonialism, capitalism, plastics, cinema ...
>
>
> "This mineral period"
>
> I.e., of "believing himself no more animate than ..." ...
>
>
> "alignment with the inanimate"
>
> IS this necessarily "the mark of a Bad Guy"?  Hm ...
>
>
> "Others ... carried on wars ... condemned his patients ..."
>
> It's not so much "the culture's failure to heal its wounded" (Grant,
> p. 63; see previous note) as "the culture's" failure NOT to wound its
> own (and others) ...
>
>
> "a conservative laziness"
>
> Cf. ...
>
> "This is America, you live in it, you let it happen.  Let it unfurl."
> (Lot 49, Ch. 6, p. 150)
>
>
> >From Kathleen Fitzpatrick, The Anxiety of Obsolescence: The American
> Novel in the Age of Television (Nashville, TN: Vanderbilt UP, 2006),
> Ch. 2, "Machine," pp. 58-97:
>
> "This melding of the human and the inanimate .... has two practical
> effects.  The first is the destruction of the human element of the
> cyborg body: Godolphin's face is ravaged by a 'foreign-body reaction'
> that causes his immune system to attack the 'inert substances'
> implanted in his flesh.  The second ... is the rise of modern cosmetic
> surgery.  Schoenmaker ('beauty maker') ... dedicated to 'prevent[ing]
> a takeover of the profession by its unnatural and traitorous Halidoms'
> ... imagine he would promote the natural, the human.  'If alignment
> with the inanimate is the mark of a Bad Guy,' the reader is told,
> 'Schoenmaker at least made a sympathetic beginning' [V., Ch. 4, p.
> 103].
>   "This beginning does not last, however, as the technologies of
> plastic surgery, the subordination of the human form to a kind of
> fleshy engineering, lead Schoenmaker further and further down the road
> toward the inanimate.  He is ultimately inspire not to fight such
> implantations as Godolphin suffered but to find ways of ensuringtheir
> acceptance by the body, of subduing the body's responses to such
> technological infiltrations....  he has suffered a clear
> 'deterioration of purpose; a decay' [V., Ch. 4, p. 104] that
> unmistakably connects him to the Whole Sick Crew's decadent
> alienation." (pp. 82-3)
>
> http://www.anxietyofobsolescence.com/
> http://www.anxietyofobsolescence.com/2006/04/chapter-2/
> http://www.vanderbiltuniversitypress.com/books/11/the-anxiety-of-obsolescence
> http://books.google.com/books?id=pdkDXNbPPuUC
>



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