GR shared unconsciousness

[MASCARO at HUMnet.UCLA.EDU]

A passing remark by David C. is illuminating--
>
>  I agree, also, that 
>there is a lot of Jung in Pynchon; in particular I often feel that all 
>the characters, and the narrator, and the author, are meant to have a 
>shared unconscious, in which the readers are invited to participate.
>
I think you have hit on something good here.  It helps account for the atmosphere of GR, 
which is really quite unlike any other book I've ever read.  The emphasis, IMO, should be 
on the *UN* part of unconscious, on the kind of subthreshhold background sense of the 
text as we read.  It seems to fit in too w/ the idea of GR as dream. Especially since I believe 
that the novel is the tale of the world's death dream, the dream that starts when the last 
rocket lands, and unfolds in the delta-t between that landing and the sound of its arrival.  
But the thread of GR-as-dream is hard to talk about w/out trivializing it (and when I 
woke up, my pillow was gone!).  David C's observation provides a nontrivial support for 
the idea, IMO.
john m