CNN? No. House of Pynchon, plus Star Trek fan-tasy

[jporter]

E.A. Weinstein says many excellent things All of which I agree with, albeit
from an amateur's perspective. I single out just a snippet of his post to
comment on. I encourage everyone to read the whole thing:


>If it be Sunday, let em preach---And as knights of the oddly
>shaped table of Pynchon, I take it, our responsibilities are
>perhaps only least of all "purely  academic", whatever that may be,
>most of all to the world and to our selves, whatever they may
>be, the unfolding discovery of each Situation leaving only
>moments to bring all our resources to bear, and to Act wisely
>in the interests of fragile human possibility, fragile earthly
>ecology.

Great! And I would shoulder this broken lance to defend the mystery from
the marauders...I'm not sure if the "oddly shaped table of Pynchon" is a
pentagon or a hexagon, nor if the Pearl of Sumatra is the fifth or sixth
most notorious haunt on the point, nor if Washington's or Gershom's
cultural heritages can both be contained by America and somehow both
ennobled, but I would hope so. And I would certainly prefer to keep
wondering about all the details of the "House" rather than have any of them
answered by sticking a microphone in the face of Mr. Pynchon.

Eric confirms the excellence of his post by the following confession:

>     Having made the metaphor, which is both utterly true and
>a crock of shit, as the heartfelt often is--


The high and the low, sir, at your service,

jody