Section the Third, pg.17-19

[Mark Kohut]

Spying is by itself a corruption of being fully human in Pynchon, a
by-definition invasion of one's right to privacy
and living a 'free' self-decided life.

On Thu, Mar 31, 2016 at 3:33 AM, Joseph Tracy <brook7 at sover.net> wrote:

> Part of the deal for me is that we take SPIES too seriously, like Cops and
> Detectives. Pynchon is questioning that and it is really obvious that    he
> has a point because a lot of them are wacked out turds shat from the
> asshole of government paranoia.
> > On Mar 28, 2016, at 9:55 PM, 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?
> >
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