Stockpiled weapons???

[Paul Mackin]

On Wed, 14 Jun 2000, Otto Sell wrote:

> A L L I E D  C L E A R I N G  H O U S E  T E C H N I C A L  U N I T S
> N O R T H E R N  G E R M A N Y
> 
> Terrance wrote:
> > Is GR an Anti-christian novel, anti-religious novel?
> 
> In certain aspects it definitely is. Anti-christian if Puritanism is
> concerned which puts death over life, and anti-religious inj a postmodern
> sense. God is an outer-systematic reference point of logocentrism.


But Death happens and P certainly knows it. True, Christianity recognizes
all too well the unpleasant fact. There's no escape except by
Supernatural and Miraculous intervention and that may only be for the
Elect. Unfortunately for us moderns the age of miracles has long
passed. We have to be content with Pynchon. One way Pynchon is like
Christianity is that he seems at times to accept the idea that there was
an original paradisiacal state. This is the Life that once was and somehow
might be returned to. The possibility of Return. Unfortunately this is
what some people find a tiny bit sappy about his stuff. Many don't
however. Of course it's all irony.

			P.