GRGR(4) KK and "enthymeme": Like the man himself sez:

[rj]

doug:
> My reading of Pynchon tells me he's doing
> more than giving us sophisticated jerk-off stimuli.

Indeed: "True pornography is given us by vastly patient professionals."
(_Lot 49_, 107)

> Terrance thus sums up the two dominant views of GR, and TRP's work in
> general, as expressed here on Pynchon-L -- those who would deny the ability
> to find any ultimate meanings in TRP's novels (the yoyo ride), and those
> who find such meanings (the flashlight in the sewers). So many of our
> discussions here go in that loop. 

Oh my. Not still caught in *that* binary blind, are we?

"She had heard all about excluded middles; they were bad shit, to be
avoided; and how had it ever happened here, with the chances once so
good for diversity? [Right on, Oed!] For it was now like walking among
matrices of a great digital computer, the zeroes and ones twinned above,
hanging like balanced mobiles right and left, ahead, thick, maybe
endless. Behind the hieroglyphic streets there would either be a
transcendent meaning, or only the earth ..., truth's numinous beauty ...
or only a power spectrum." [_Lot 49_ 125]

best