Mondaugen's law

[Lycidas at worldnet.att.net]

Henry Musikar wrote:
> 
> >From: Mike Weaver <pic at gn.apc.org>
> >Date: Tue, 25 Jan 2000 17:49:35 -0600
> >
> <snip>
> >I don't believe that TP advocates both/and, but reckon he is
> >saying that we do have to choose one way or the other in
> >order to act effectively
> 
> I'll go you one better. IMHO, not only does Pynchon not advocate a
> particular choice, but he doesn't advocate choosing or "acting effectively."

Not sure what you mean here? Is that he doesn't advocate
anything? Or that he advocates doing nothing, not choosing,
not acting effectively? 


> His writing illustrates possibilities, including choices, including "Is it
> Okay to be a Luddite." 

Pynchon is objective in his perspective. Satirist are
sometimes accused of being aloof, of not advocating change,
but this rarely the case, they are also often accused of
being sick or nuts or misanthropes, or paranoids--see the
strange case of Mr. Swift, but Pynchon advocates an awful
lot in my opinion and he is not only about tickling us out
of our favorite follies and rubbing our noses in our foul
humanity, he is a 60s dude I think, at least in that he
advocates that we educate ourselves about what's goin on,
oh, what's goin on, and do what we can about it. He's
certainly doing what he can best. 

TF


BTW, does Slothrop go here and now or spread out?
> Here and now can be a path to complete cosmic blow-out.
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