TP or not TP

[Gillies, Lindsay]

hag queries:
If Gore Vidal thinks TRP gives reassurances of personal immortality,
then he has woefully misread him. Unless _I_ have woefully misread
TRP. But what do others make of the many voices from the 'other side'
present in GR, and the Thanatoids in Vineland? I have always
considered them metaphors, at most pesonifications of rather Freudian
suppressions, rather than some superficial claim of _personal_
immortality....
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Does TRP give reassurances about anything?  He at leasts fabulates his 
characters' preoccupations with the Beyond.  As usual (and I'm just adding 
to rather than responding to hag) meaning is multivalent.  I'm thinking I'd 
rather chat more about the works themselves, rather than so much about 
who/what TRP is as a person, not that that's not very interesting.  But what 
we can really know and build on is the work...