Fwd: remember all the clothes

[Markekohut]

Gnossos seeks EXEMPTION ( not only from time and death but somehow from the demands of life as well.....[secular version of Calvinistic Election?] ....."Gnossos looks at a number of possibilities, including Eastern religion, road epiphanies, mescaline, love...All turn out to have a flaw of some kind. "----TRP
"What he is left to depend on is his own coherence, an extended version of 1950's Cool." "Immunity has been granted to me, for I do not lose my cool" --Gnossos

Cool as sign of salvation, sea-changed? 

I get a distinct sense in what TRP does not say here, but we have read elsewhere,---such as
"Keep Cool but Care" that Farina [as he is or embodies Farina's vision---" it lies at the heart of his style"--serves as  a one-sided exemplar for TRP's vision ....but with "love" [notice it is another
Failure for Gnossos] and caring--which might damage one's cool coherence [ with another layer
Added to Slothrop's dissolution? 


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> Oedipal has to remove when she plays Strip Botticelli? 
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> "Curfews were not the only erotic problem we faced....
> ....a variety of coed undergarments fiendishly designed to delay until 
> Curfew, if not to prevent outright, any access to one's date's  pelvic area."
>                  ----Pynchon's intro to Farina's novel, 1983
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> "[Gnossos ] is susceptible to the thrill of vendetta or karmic adjustment,
> An impulse I suspect isn't entirely absent from why Farina wrote the novel"
>                        ---pynchon 
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> As adumbrated by Pynchon, part of the motivation for Farina's novel was Cornell's
> Crackdown on partiers like him ( including his suspension, although soon rescinded after the protesting) .  
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> So, fiction can be 'karmic adjustment' ? 
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