GR translation: except that the man was never really alive

[David Morris]

Really... Real.

On Sunday, March 10, 2013, David Morris wrote:

> Jamf as mythic being, apochrapha, boogeyman.
>
> He was never alive because he exists only in story.  His story, not he
> himself, is what has been living on.  Jamf can be dead, but not really,
> because he was never really alive.
>
> On Sunday, March 10, 2013, alice wellintown wrote:
>
>> In the postmodern critical haystack data days Jamf was employed as
>> bleed and noise to tout P's postmodern indeterminacy, his reader
>> trappings and mappings on to ambiguities multiplying. Though surely
>> paranoids, as proverbs for those thus inclined, from Odysseus, to
>> Hamlet to Alice in Wonderland to Dorothy in Oz, and all who have
>> feelings they may not be in Kansas or anyplace else on the map,
>> suspect that the real may be only a reel, film, a belief only a dream.
>> Difficult to translate....
>>
>> > I take this as Slothrop writing off or entertaining the idea of Jamf as
>> > merely a figment of his imagination--an attractive alternative to the
>> truth?
>> > Related to this (much) later mention of Jamf on p738?  Even though Jamf
>> is
>> > ostensibly a physically real entity, paranoia is just as much about
>> > suspicion of the real as it is belief in the unreal.
>> >
>> > "'There never was a Dr. Jamf,' opines world-renowned analyst Mickey
>> > Wuxtry-Wuxtry--'Jamf was only a fiction'"
>>
>
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