Mortality & Mercy in Vienna

[Jochen Stremmel]

You said that now at lest twice, David. The high schooler who can put out
sth like Mortality and Mercy would have a bright future as a writer, I
think. And I don't think it has much morality. I think it's better than
Entropy, that one is really charged with symbols. You all know the scene
where the parting Duke delegates his power to Angelo with those words, it's
the first. And Siegel is no hypocrite – what he does, given the choice
between M&M, is quite cool, don't you think.

What I thought after Slow Learner came out: that P didn't republish that
short story because he didn't like to see that name again, associated with
his own, the name of that asshole who broke the silence about him.

2016-01-09 2:00 GMT+01:00 David Morris <fqmorris at gmail.com>:

> Too much morality for my taste, and so clunky to boot!  This feels like it
> was written by a high schooler.
>
>
> On Friday, January 8, 2016, Mark Kohut <mark.kohut at gmail.com> wrote:
>
>> 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?
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