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[Mark Kohut]

The Crutchfleid or Crouchfied (and I just let surface associations of the
words play around my mind, crutch, crouch,  This whole scene is purposely
anti--logical. Purposely beyond cause & effect and even associational
clarity, unlike the exegetical reasoning we use on other names and actions,
yes?
This  section has seemed to me to be largely about The West, westward man,
the clue. Perhaps the West in Spengler's meaning but at least in the "Go
West, Young Man" U.S.-meaning? Crouching toward The Frontier?  That jingle
and all those 'ones' have signaled conceptual, stereotypical narrowness to
me, as in 'singled lines', as in half of a binary---Half-an-Ark, nice
joke---as in the absence of plurality, of diversity, of a variety of
judgments, perspectives.

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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