48-54 The Problem of the Pavlovian Penis

[kelber at mindspring.com]

Don't have the book with me right now, but isn't there some mention of a fast or running fox? So Pynchon is setting up a joke about the quick brown fox jumping over the lazy ( Pavlovian) dog.

Laura

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Joseph Tracy <brook7 at sover.net> wrote:

>Kevin Spectro- a spectral presence sitting in the annulus( technologic ring) of ( mysterious) night , holder of Book, manager of experimental subjects with little apparent choice( like Von Braun’s slaves?), leader in the of cult of Pavlov, despiser of ethical restrictions,upholder of scientific method, despiser of “old” order, spiking Foxes with painkiller, withholding them from Pointsman’s avarice/lust, "not the devil” are you?”, destined for death and destruction via V2 with St. Veronica’s and therefor identified with the rocket( nuclear weapon) as “a ghost in the sky". 
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>Why call patients Fox? In Japan fox is trickster, in england object of hunt, in 70s sexy woman. But why a predator for a patient that seems more prey?
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>> On May 5, 2016, at 7:48 AM, Joseph Tracy <brook7 at sover.net> wrote:
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>>  please feel free to jump in as you will, p-listers.
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>> To St. Veronica's hospital where Pointsman and Spectro (also a Pavlovian scientist) discuss Pointsman’s desire to have access to experiment with Slothrop as subject and we find with full clarity that Slothrop is somehow predicting the location and time of the fall of the rockets with his map of erections. Spectro says it can't be experimentally justified because there is just one subject. They wonder how Slothrop's predictive ability works, comparing phenoma of erection then rocket strike to  the arrival of a rocket first,  and then the rocket sound. We find Slothrop was also patient/ experimental subject of Laszlo Jamf. Pointsman wants same access to human subjects, reflecting Nazi medical experiments and known western experiments.
>> The "hospital' takes in children, apparently survivors of bomb blasts etc. Some odd "therapy" is hinted at, possibly shock therapy. It is said that a thousand children are about to leave. Alive? To go where?)
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>> note:
>> St. Veronica is a Catholic legend of a woman who offers Jesus a cloth to wipe his face on the way to calvary and the cloth bears the image( Ver I can = true image in Latin) of his face. This may be related to shroud of Turin but very sketchy what the source is. The idea though is an image showing the utmost in suffering and abuse born in the face of Jesus. It is interesting that Jesus face is traditionally almost hermaphroditic apart from the beard so both the feminine and masculine are conveyed.  In the novel St Veronica's carries a dominant sense of misery, sounds of wailing reminiscent of the screaming at start of novel- science in the service of scrying bones.-
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