Conflicted Pynchon

[Paul Mackin]

On Thu, 25 Apr 1996, Peter A Watts wrote:

> P'r'aps Pynchon is pissed because he keeps getting caught right in the 
> middle: seeing the clockwork behind it all but still a ghost distinct 
> from the machine with a will that can never submit in good faith to the 
> causal stuctures that give it shape, but are always distinct from the 
> self and the will.


Not only Pynchon, but all the rest of us as well. (at least me)

The search through the Zone for _explanations_ seems intended to reflect
an act of hubris, a violation of the natural order--that is only set right 
again with the recovery of the harmonica and the transfiguration under the 
bridge.

Yet who would not have wanted this (another) wrong fork in the road taken?

The technologies are too compelling. Loved those Nazi carbon atoms.

					P.