Dialectics and conspiracy

[Michael Perez]

Terrance wrote:
"Pynchon is satirizing dialectic and conspiracy. The conspiracies in GR
are, political, economic, historical, psychological, theological, we
might say Universal. They are ubiquitous and insidious, like an
omnipotent, omnipresent, omniscient god gone mad--down to the smallest
elements of expanding or contracting nature/mind and out into the vast
expanding or contracting space/mind.   Would it make sense for Pynchon
to introduce his own conspiracy to the text or subtext, even while he
satirizes Universal conspiracies?"

I agree, but we can't forget to link these to the personal conspiracies
and the paranoia that feeds them.  As JBFRAME reminds us, it doesn't
mean that Their not really after you, but to imagine that the rocket is
aimed directly at you and will hit you straight on like Slothrop in
London and Pokler in the current episode is over the edge, obviously. 
Pynchon plays with both kinds of conspiracy quite amusingly and
frightfully.

Michael

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