Bigadier Bigfoot

[Mark Kohut]

Of course, we can all squirmingly argue a long ways down this
deathslide...(or is it up the sloping tower?)...But, don't we
generally think Pynchon, at least, from Brown and others, is trying to
focus on which societies, nations, cultures,
etc. embody more of the 'death instinct' than others?....

Do we believe THAT is a viable question? No matter our own personal
immersion in The Question?

Are there not, have there ever been---yes, echoes
intentional---societies which could not formulate, no one or, none but
the bleeding edgers, the concept of a death instinct. Which did not
even think about it???................



On Tue, Feb 3, 2015 at 10:01 AM, Monte Davis <montedavis49 at gmail.com> wrote:
> This. I've never been able to subscribe wholeheartedly to lucubrations on a
> death instinct, or to anyone's (even Pynchon's) case that any one society or
> culture has a specially fraught relation to death. Seems to me that for
> sound evo-psych reasons, ALL of us spend nearly ALL the time looking away
> from the obvious and inevitable... and then -- d'oh! -- find that there's
> something numinous and fascinating about it.
>
> On Tue, Feb 3, 2015 at 9:42 AM, rich <richard.romeo at gmail.com> wrote:
>>
>> fwiw
>>
>> if you're alive, you're already a member of a death-orientated system. out
>> plots are all charted and we know what they tending towards. cant escape it
>> man
>>
>> rich
>>
>> On Tue, Feb 3, 2015 at 9:22 AM, Mark Kohut <mark.kohut at gmail.com> wrote:
>>>
>>> Now there is Bonk, almost a truncated, acronymically compressed
>>> rendering of Brock Vond, the Voc Bigfoot.
>>>
>>> Seems the sexual repressions and attempted expressions in these
>>> current chapters which Laura has articulated might be one place to
>>> look for such.
>>>
>>> On Tue, Feb 3, 2015 at 7:55 AM, Mark Wright <washoepete at gmail.com> wrote:
>>> > Bigfoot and his Bananas point to GR along multiple vectors: banana
>>> > breakfasts; phallic forms of rockets and of, well, phallii black,
>>> > white, and
>>> > of Official Commendation. In PTA's film of IV one catches a whiff also
>>> > of
>>> > Brigadier Pudding the coprophage. (No wonder there are crippling
>>> > therapy
>>> > bills!) This is Pynchonian vengeance upon and warning to those who most
>>> > eagerly made themselves into the human tools of Death Oriented Systems
>>> > (DOSs).
>>> >
>>> > Where will this theme bob to the surface in Mason & Dixon?
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