GR translation: living its fantasy

[Mike Jing]

Thanks for the reply, Michael.


On Sun, Dec 22, 2024 at 1:09 AM Michael Bailey <michael.lee.bailey at gmail.com>
wrote:

> I didn’t know what G-5 was - had to check the Pynchon wiki
>
> *G-5*
> 125; Weisenburger quoting A.M. Taylor: "that section of the Army set up to
> take over local government in lands occupied by invasion forces. Other
> sections are G-1 personnel, G-2 Intelligence, G-3 Training and Plans, G-4
> Supply and Evacuation."; 290; 644;
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>
>
> Hmm… -  narrator musing about how the G-5 administration began as
> contra-factual fantasies in the form of plans - people invested their time,
> efforts, and lives to those specifications - yet, reality will demonstrate
> to Slothrop that the inhabitants are and always will be governed to a
> greater degree by physical constraints such as need, weather, personal
> loyalties, not to mention random factors - so to assert that G-5 is the
> only government is a fantasy. Yet, as armed forces, they are sworn to
> follow the chain of command, acting as if they are the only government, and
> overcome any overt resistance?
>
> Something like that, maybe.
>
>
>
> On Fri, Dec 20, 2024 at 11:01 PM Mike Jing <gravitys.rainbow.cn at gmail.com>
> wrote:
>
> > V290.36-291.3   “It’s an arrangement,” she tells him. “It’s so
> unorganized
> > out here. There have to be arrangements. You’ll find out.” Indeed he
> > will—he’ll find thousands of arrangements, for warmth, love, food, simple
> > movement along roads, tracks and canals. Even G-5, living its fantasy of
> > being the only government in Germany now, is just the arrangement for
> being
> > victorious, is all. No more or less real than all these others so
> private,
> > silent, and lost to History.
> >
> > By saying G-5 is living its fantasy of being the only government in
> > Germany, does it mean that its fantasy has come true, or is it still just
> > an illusion?
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