GRGR (15): Good & Evil (was Enzian...)

[rj]

TF
> Satire is by its definition, not morally ambiguous,
> relativistic, or indeterminate.

But what about irony?

The satire of 'The Rape of the Lock', for example, is different in that
the target is specific and obvious, and finite. By your own admission
*GR* appears to satirise everything -- "philosophy, science, art,
history, politics, economics, psychology, sociology, mass
media." Indeed, it satirises itself. Where, then, is the moral centre
the reader can hold to, that vantage from which the objects of the
satire can be distinguished from the moral certainties you propose? 

It is the reflexiveness of Pynchon's literature which distinguishes it
from (within?) the traditional category of Satire.

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