Section the Third, pg.17-19

[Monte Davis]

Also the perfect arena for modernist & pomo exploration of alienation,
artist/author as outsider, and assorted "impostor" neuroses: I am not who
these people think I am. My role-playing will lead me to knowledge of who I
really am, and of the motives of those who assign my roles.

"See you now,
Your bait of falsehood takes this carp of truth.
And thus do we of wisdom and of reach,
With windlasses and with assays of bias,
By indirections find directions out."


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On Thu, Mar 31, 2016 at 6:42 AM, Mark Kohut <mark.kohut at gmail.com> wrote:

> 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?
>> >
>> > --
>> > www.innergroovemusic.com
>> >
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