Mortality & Mercy in Vienna

[Mark Kohut]

The more I 'analyze' this story, the more problematic it is to me.
Some over the top
symbols and allusions and symbolic motivation I don't think I get.....

Yes, the motivation does not seem 'earned', right?....but wha is it?

Siegel is Mercy?....the Ojibway is Mortality? .......I cannot
think the influence of the play into this story.......so different..
---- Vienna is absolutely corrupt, known.......and I guess DC is
supposed to be too.....




On Sat, Jan 2, 2016 at 3:11 PM, Mark Kohut <mark.kohut at gmail.com> wrote:
> http://www.pynchon.pomona.edu/uncollected/vienna.html
>
> Starts in rain. (see Small Rain and P on that symbolism borrowed from Hem)
>
> a party. like Entropy.
> music   like Entropy
>
> girl named Rachel. Like V. Who doesn't show.(absent)
>
> Zeit [Time] as in V. a doctor here.
>
> P-like crazy names.
>
> very overt Catholicism imagery. and a mother who refutes it at 19.
>
> what else?
-
Pynchon-l / http://www.waste.org/mail/?list=pynchon-l