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[János Széky]

67 (Viking) One of the most mysterious and (for me, at least)
difficult-to-like passages begins when the central character of the dream
sequence switches from Slothrop to Crutchfield. (I see him as a pre-image
of Weismann. Southwest - Südwest.)

So there is "one of each of everything". I can't quite connect this to
anything that can be conceptualized, and it may be wholly surrealistic,
but--

as opposed to what we can read in PynchonWiki, imo this is *not *a nod to
Carl Jung ("not archetypal (...) but the only").

Now there is this song on the next page (the second one):

"Well one little fairy, even one bull dyke,
One litttle nigger, one little kike, One Red Indian" etc.

This would suggest that with emphasizing "one"-ness, Pynchon targets the
kind of WASP, male, homophobic way thinking that became the main object of
social criticism during the next period. That is, thinking in stereotypes
about everybody else. I don't know when this particular passage was
written, but seems to reflect the turning point of 1969, augmenting
Black-related stereotypes with the rest.
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