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Weissman (or Captain Dominus Blicero) is a major character in Thomas Pynchon's novels V. and Gravity's Rainbow (in which he is a major antagonist).
Character[]
An extreme sadist with basically no qualms about whom he victimizes, Weissman is a somewhat major force within the Nazi war effort. He controls the V-2 rocket experiments which lead to the creation of the SG-00000 rocket (a somewhat hollow rocket in which he shoved his young sexual partner Gottfried inside of) and formed the "cult of Imipolex-G". Weissman is shown to actively fetishize death. Somewhat late into Gravity's Rainbow, a series of tarot cards are used to describe Weissman. These include the Knight of Swords, the Tower, the Queen of Swords, the King of Cups, the Ace of Swords, the Four of Cups and Four of Pentacles, the Page of Pentacles, the Eight of Cups, the Two of Swords, and the World. Weissman is a devoted reader of the poet Rainer Maria Rilke.
History[]
A V-2 rocket similar to the SG-00000
Even before the beginning of World War II, Weissman engaged in various disturbing actions. The most notable of these was his sexual encounters with a young Herero in German-controlled South-East Africa. As the Nazi war effort began, Weissman became a major figure within the development of the V-2 rockets. He was present at both the Peenemünde Army Research Center and the Mittelwerk. Around the same time, Weissman (who took the name Dominus Blicero) began work on the Schwarzgerät (or SG-00000) and began his worship of the plastic imipolex-G (which made up a large portion of the SG-00000).
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