15-01-2013, 10:21 PM
Charles Drago Wrote:Jan Klimkowski Wrote:Quote:"It provides raw material to be recorded into History, so that children may be taught History as sequences of violence, battle after battle, and be more prepared for the adult world."
Thomas Pynchon, Gravity's Rainbow
This is wisdom, timeless and inescapable.
It is.
But indulge me, Pynchon's prose is resonant, and a longer excerpt sprinkles some subtly different magick dust.
The mass nature of wartime death is useful in many ways. It serves as a spectacle, as a diversion from the real movements of the War. It provides raw material to be recorded into History, so that children may be taught History as sequences of violence, battle after battle, and be more prepared for the adult world.
Mass death.
Grieving parents.
Griefstricken friends.
Mass death. Bloody slaughter.
Trauma used to switch the points.... to send the train hurtling along the chosen tracks...
"It means this War was never political at all, the politics was all theatre, all just to keep the people distracted...."
"Proverbs for Paranoids 4: You hide, They seek."
"They are in Love. Fuck the War."
Gravity's Rainbow, Thomas Pynchon
"Ccollanan Pachacamac ricuy auccacunac yahuarniy hichascancuta."
The last words of the last Inka, Tupac Amaru, led to the gallows by men of god & dogs of war
"Proverbs for Paranoids 4: You hide, They seek."
"They are in Love. Fuck the War."
Gravity's Rainbow, Thomas Pynchon
"Ccollanan Pachacamac ricuy auccacunac yahuarniy hichascancuta."
The last words of the last Inka, Tupac Amaru, led to the gallows by men of god & dogs of war