MDMD(4) - Giant rob'd Beings (108.9-12), CL49

[Vaska]

Eric Alan Weinstein reminds us of Oedipa's Nighttown episode:

>      Pynchon seems to include  those who have been excluded as outcasts, 
>united for a moment within the  form of a single sentance. Those who are 
>defined as outcasts may be gods, and those who are Gods may be outcast.
>
>     Waves, of course, are literally Out-Cast. 

What strikes me is that except for Shiva [a self-sacrificing instead of a
son-sacrificing deity], all the other figures Pynchon alludes to in that
passage were made outcasts by the triumph of Judeo-Christianity.  The
nighttown men and women Oedipa comes across are also, and primarily, the
preterite many of the Protestant dispensation granted under the Christian
Pluto[-cratic "I am that I am" emperor of the ice-scream].  

[And come to think of it, Pynchon's dad was a surveyor, right?, an
"arbitrary" line-drawer, and, not to forget, a Republican, too.  Never
imagined I'd get so chummy with Freud....]

Vaska