Pynchon and Magical Realism

[Patric Bach]

hi there...

pynchon & magical realism?
When i think back to my reading of GR (or Pynchon in general), i remember 
the most one thing: thal many of mz illusions, dreams and romantic ideas 
of the world have benn completely shatteres. Death in the culture were 
provided, death everywhere or a motion towards death (the rocket itself: 
a vehicle for self-transcendence, what is - naturally - death: refernece 
to goedels theorems i think, where it says, that systems of a certain 
vastness can never be fully understood... wich therefor means, that you 
never can leave the "real life" and dont trust the advertisements, the 
promises of technology and science... it means, that a pursuit of 
disconnecting from the world and the - emotional, ethical and 
pszcvhological - problems it causes, is, at the end a pursuit of death, 
- the only form of self/transcendence possible for man.

hoops - sort of carried away...

what i want to say, is, that modern culture is a death-culture (according 
to pynchon), a dead mythology (cutting all the connectedness, and 
andvertising unconnectedness, therfor beeing free (of real life)...) aand 
the only form of mythologz left for us (mythology as a metaphor for the 
world and its forces, that control you, in a way that a only can be 
expressed in this metaphor, not in terms of science.) is in fact:
paranoia.

this is, what pynchon does: he shatteres your dreams of death and leaving 
the soul your born with behind, but also gives an new option, a 
CONSTRUCTIVE one. Constructive paranoia (this is the term in the german 
version of GR, i dont no the english) as a way of establisching a new / 
and real - connectedness to the world. A new mythology, an THEY	are god. 
This is why THEY are always printed in capital letters, right?

Patric


PS. I'm german, so forcive me my at times stumbling english and: this is 
my first post ever and hmm... i hope i mailed it right.
bye