koans! koans! koans!

[Terrance F. Flaherty]

Matt Treyvaud wrote:

this line of reasoning might also be applied to criticisms of gravity's
rainbow on the grounds that bits of it are contradictory and temporarily
impossible. if you find contradictions, then you're falling into the trap
of seeing GR as a description of reality, rather than a denial/subversion
of its validity.


If you want to follow this "line of reasoning" you can not. Haven't you fallen
into the same trap?
Denial/Subversion of reality is language you will not find in a Buddhist text.



If Pynchon's method is as you say, in some way Buddhist in nature, by which I
mean the absolute Bhudda-nature, paradoxical, negative in form, I'll agree.
This, IMVHO, is one of the most beautiful aspects of Pynchon's "text." For
example, critics might consider, if,  while lampooning "California Zen" in
Vineland, Pynchon offers a Buddhist theory of salvation through a paradoxical
discourse?

Why does the Zen Master shout "HO" ?