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[Keith Davis]

Is Crutchfield a person? Somehow I thought it was referring to a gun, but
can't find a reference to support that.

On Tue, May 24, 2016 at 8:34 AM, János Széky <miksaapja at gmail.com> wrote:

> I just said imo...
>
> 2016-05-24 13:59 GMT+02:00 Monte Davis <montedavis49 at gmail.com>:
>
>> Janos -- I did the most recent revision of that Pynchon Wiki note on "not
>> 'archetypal'... but *the only", *and I thank you for highlighting its
>> lack of clarity. I shouldn't have left open the inference that Pynchon is
>> adopting or endorsing Jung's depth psychology.
>>
>> I'll revise again, drawing attention to the scare quotes on "archetypal"
>> as a way of saying "I'm not using this word in the sense you may first
>> think," or "don't try to cram what I'm doing here into a category left over
>> from your Psychology 101 class."
>>
>> On Tue, May 24, 2016 at 7:36 AM, János Széky <miksaapja at gmail.com> wrote:
>>
>>> 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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