Re: CoL49 - Hilarius’ confession

[Mark Kohut]

even the best psychological understanding does not explain the
inexplicable...does not explain the mystery of life...(the Trystero is a
mystery. )
Does not explain the anarchic entrance into Oed's life and the world of
America what Jesus Arrabal defines as   “You know what a miracle is. Not
what Bakunin said. But another world's intrusion into this one"...

By the way, with all of our Jesus explication, did we mention THE Jesus H.
Christ as Albee initialized him. This allusion placed her by the writer who
used to go to mass alomst every day wehn he was hardly younger than he is
writing this. And there is this quote...

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On Mon, Jul 15, 2024 at 6:29 AM J K Van Nort via Pynchon-l <
pynchon-l at waste.org> wrote:

> Just before the police arrest Hilarius, as Oed points his gun at him, the
> Nazi war criminal tells her to hold onto her fantasy, not to let the
> Freudians "coax" it out of her or the pharmacists "poison" her fantasy. He
> discusses his attempts to be a Freudian "believer" in an act of penance for
> his crimes at Buchenwald. It's been suggested in this group reading that
> Pynchon may be critiquing or joking about psychiatry and its influence in
> the post war era. Why does his critique come from a Nazi doctor? How does
> this amplify or negate the critique?
>
> In solidarity,
> James
>
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