MDMD(3)--Just a thought

[Doug Millison]

At 8:07 PM 7/8/97, Paul Mackin wrote:
>Is not this extreme form of predestinationwhat Pynchon latches onto as his
>>metaphor for life >here on
>earth. In other words, our poor preterite state is UNDESERVED.

It seems to me that Pynchon's fiction leaves open the possibility that we
can be taken up and out of our poor preterite state into the mystery, but,
yes, until we find a way out of the muck it's pretty miserable.


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