MAD Magician

[Richard Romeo]

>From: "Mark A. Douglas" <madness at airmail.net>
>To: "s~Z" <keithmar at jetlink.net>
>CC: "Maltan MothBalls" <pynchon-l at waste.org>
>Subject: Re: MAD Magician
>Date: Mon, 13 Sep 1999 23:11:42 -0500
>
> > "Mark A. Douglas" wrote:
> > >
> > > ultimately, IMHO, Pychon is a writer of and about magic, and to my 
>mind, a
> > > 'pynchonian' novel would be magical.
> >
> > You mean to tell us that the *ultimate* in Pynchon is not politics or
> > science or philosophy?
> >
> > Magic, you say?
> >
>Well, the answer is in the reading:  magic is the means, with politics and 
> >science and philosophy as the ends, OR, politics or science or philosophy 
>is the
>means, and magic is the end.  I'm not at all sure it's a position I can 
>defend,
>but it is a preferred reading for me.
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I would ad, Mr Mad, longing and lament. Surely, all these systems of 
transcendence whether via science, religion, politics, aesthetics, whatever, 
share this desire for higher self, and, it's all too usual comedown, which 
includes the loss of magic.

rich

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