MDMD(3)--Just a thought

[David Casseres]

In a very good post that's actually about Pynchon's writing (!), Phillip 
J. Muth sez

>How about the reversal of biblical time in the passage.  We
>begin with the apocalyse, the boundary of being, the end of it
>all at the end of the world, but when good old Wicks shows up
>we are, with fruit all around, in Eden and with Eve, yet also
>performing a cannabalistic rite and a eucharist. Agnes Dei,
>comes next, Wick's interpretation of Mason's haters for the
>Lamb, and before you know it there we are, hell bound and out
>of the chapter.

Ah, thanx for amplifying the Connexion between the Eating-to-Oven 
sequence and the parallel progression from Apocalypse to Eden.  Note also 
that the Cape itself is one of the Ends of the World, and Englishmen, 
like all island-dwellers, are ever fascinated with marking the Place 
where the Land ends as a special kind of boundary.


Cheers,
David