GRGR(3) Pointsman (also Re. Gnostic Pynchon)

[Richard Romeo]

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>Note: The world of Pynchon’s fiction, according to Eddins, as he applies 
> >Voegelin, “operates as a radical perversion of a humanizing metaxy.” For 
> >example, in V. it would involve Stencil’s quest for Henty Adams’ 
>Virgin—now a >dynamo of life denying force or the dialectic between Oedipa 
>and Tristero or the >quest for the rocket in GR. In each case, Eddins 
>maintains, “the sense of cosmic
>well-being dependent upon the metaxic tension between the pure immanence of 
>the >apeiron and the pure transcendence of nous is shattered by attempts to 
>destroy >or usurp this transcendental status.
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it would be very interesting to see what Eddins thinks of Vineland and M&D, 
as Pynchon seems to function in both of these novels as perverting the 
perversion of his own de-humanizing metaxy, the heart-felt stride to tell us 
a story in human terms in Vineland, so different from the aloof, twisted 
beauty that is Lot 49, and the focus on family strife between Mason and his 
Dad, b/w Dixon and Emerson, and his play in that book with the V-image, 
acting at this late stage as a nod and wink.

rich


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