Prosthetic Paradise(2) Enfetishment&MS (fwd)

[Doug Millison]

At 9:29 AM -0500 12/7/99, Paul Mackin wrote:
>Having one's dead ancestors lurking about strikes me as quite terrifying
>as well, so I must say  Vive la enlightenment in spite of its worts.

They never really went away, did they, despite the various distractions
we've created to mask their presence. That's one of the things that Pynchon
seems to be telling us, making the point increasingly obvious as he grows
in his art, in GR, Vineland, M&D.