48-54 The Problem of the Pavlovian Penis

[Keith Davis]

Definitely seems that way.

On Fri, May 6, 2016 at 3:24 PM, Joseph Tracy <brook7 at sover.net> wrote:

> Further riff on the "ghost in the sky”
> phrase/image/howl-after-the-annihilating-fact.
>
> A couple years ago our house was struck by lightning about 6 feet from my
> feet where i was in bed half awake. It hit an outdoor light that was, along
> with most of our electric system, ungrounded; and also hit a cement pad
> below the light that shattered and sent debris against the house and
> woodshed. That sound of shattering and debris came slightly before the boom
> of thunder and I thought in my half awake state it was an explosive or
> weapon. We have all heard a lot of that sound. This was only amplified by
> the KaBoom.( BTW the insurance covered a new modern electric system, thank
> Zeus). But such a thing can shake  you.
>
> Maybe that is why the phrase and image in GR( a ghost in the sky) struck
> me so strongly, though it is also reminiscent of the screaming in the
> opening scene. One other echo of that image is the idea of a mind or intent
> behind death and destruction-the ghost- holy or not.. In Calvinism all
> things are "pre-destined” and foreknown ( the Hebrew Bible writers weren’t
> so logical about a thing like omniscience. They wrote a scene where God
> goes to earth to see if a report is really true. I don’t know how Calvin
> missed that one, but preceptual logic is pretty potent.)   Slothrop is
> haunted by this theology of his upbringing even   as his present life in GR
> is haunted without his full understanding because of this map. The map
> seems to confirm either  psychic abilities, a theology  of predestination
> or some yet unknown scientific explanation for the reversal of cause and
> effect.
>
>   Maps to God are usually about social, religious conformity, but what
> about secret maps, inner maps of pleasure,  transformation, love, escape
> from death,  intense experience? Is Pynchon saying something about how such
> maps might confound logic and even the rules of time?
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