An economist I respect

[Joseph Tracy]

The pig is just a skin, a mask to dance animal free  and unexposed in no man's land. Inside is mostly rainbow.
On Jan 14, 2013, at 10:19 AM, alice wellintown wrote:

> Economist, Statistician, Priest, Scientist, Linguist, Mathematician,
> the list is long....because Pynchon is writing from a satirical
> stance, but it is when the theory, the drive for the ultimate theory,
> the Nobel Prize or whatever...Pointsman....blinds the character to the
> human fragility, to the Natural scatterbrained beauty in the universe,
> prevents one from hearing the Orphic Song, when one becomes a
> Gnostic-Fascist (Voegelin), driven to find the center, the all, the
> key to it all reduced to an equation....this is when suffering is
> greatest---this is the Mushroom CLoud, the Transfiguation of Nature,
> August 6th.
> 
> But, to slam all economists or all businessmen, or all
> wall-streeters....this is stupid. And s a form of the extreme, no
> beter than the Vibes and Bad Shit of corrupted power gnostics,
> Extremes, and especially violent extremes, are pushed into the lowest
> DIS of the Inferno. Anarchy, a good staart,  hates violence in
> Pynchon's novels because it forms a perfect S&M with violent Power of
> the State.
> 
> Pointsman would cut Slothrop's skull open to prove his theory.
> 
> Slothrop, however, is a Pig and no Angel. The Angels (Rilke) are
> terrible and awsome, and remain, forever a mystery. Difficult to
> embrace, but impossible to wrestle to facts and figures.