Smega

[David Morris]

Semi-seriously, smegma is akin to the biological detritus of soil's
bacterial miracle byproduct of bananas, all contained on Slothrup's desk,
including the (maybe) fantasy stars of his sexual explosions.  Slothrop's
whole being is an ultimate reaction against his infant's programming. He is
the AI Singularity. He is their Frankenstein.  That is why I see GR as a
very wishful, positive message to the world. Technology is destined for
failure against biology, Nature, God.

David Morris

On Monday, March 28, 2016, David Morris <fqmorris at gmail.com> wrote:

>
> http://www.medicaldaily.com/just-what-smegma-and-why-does-it-make-us-cringe-334414
>
> So where does the abject disgust toward smegma come from, aside from our
> general fear of anything related to our genitalia? Much like other
> begroaned bodily secretions like armpit sweat, it’s about cleanliness. When
> we regularly clean our genitals, smegma is transparent and unnoticeable,
> but when we don’t, it becomes opaque, white or yellow, and most of all,
> rank. The gunk comes from the build-up of dead skin cells trapped in the
> foreskin or vagina, while the smell comes from the bacterial breakdown of
> the oils. Harmless bacteria, not so harmless waste products. So in that
> very horrifying sense, smegma actually has plenty in common with cheese.
>
> Cheese Roll!
>
> On Monday, March 28, 2016, Keith Davis <kbob42 at gmail.com> wrote:
>
>> Smegnificent! Bring it, people!
>>
>> Www.innergroovemusic.com <http://www.innergroovemusic.com>
>>
>> On Mar 28, 2016, at 10:44 PM, David Morris <fqmorris at gmail.com> wrote:
>>
>> Smegma is a substance unknown to most Baby Boomer US males (and even
>> today's) because circumcision was nearly universal for them. Not so for
>> Slothrup's generation. Foreskins in late post-war times were nearly extinct
>> in the US (but not elsewhere) and so also would be smegma.  Pynchon is a
>> sexual fetishist for using this word that most US male readers back
>> then would probably not know about personally.
>>
>> David Morris
>>
>> On Monday, March 28, 2016, Keith Davis <kbob42 at gmail.com> wrote:
>>
>>>      And here we are introduced to our hero, Tyrone Slothrop, though he
>>> doesn't appear in person. Teddy Bloat, sent to spy on him, for reasons yet
>>> unrevealed, finds a desk, which results in a Plist (pun fully intended),
>>> littered with the slothful accumulation of "bureaucratic smegma".
>>> Everything from official documents pertaining to the war, to bits of
>>> tobacco and erasers and odd pieces of jigsaw puzzles, broken ukelele
>>> strings, all seem to be of equal importance, or lack of same, to our hero...
>>>      Seems Teddy Bloat, whose ass was saved by the quick reaction of
>>> Pirate Prentice in the first section, is a spy, for whom we are not yet
>>> told, though it must be official, SHAEF sword hairbrushes and all. His old
>>> college friend, Lt. Oliver ("Tantivy") Mucker-Maffick (a name which seems
>>> to beg for multiple layers of interpretation), shares an office with
>>> Slothrop at ACHTUNG (I won't preach to the choir about the beauty of this
>>> acronym..), and must have mentioned Slothrop's soon to be infamous map....
>>>    Multicolored stars labeled with women's names, coinciding with the
>>> locations of bomb disasters Slothrop's been sent out to investigate for
>>> ACHTUNG. What does it all mean?
>>>    And, more importantly, to whom does it all mean anything?
>>>
>>> --
>>> www.innergroovemusic.com
>>>
>>>
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