Section the Third, pg.17-19

[Mark Kohut]

A---and for some who fully invest in being spies, they are never who they
are. Their being is false and they never learn 'who they really are/could
have been" humanly.

On Thu, Mar 31, 2016 at 7:04 AM, Monte Davis <montedavis49 at gmail.com> wrote:

> 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?
>>> >
>>> > --
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>>> >
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