Stockpiled weapons???

[Richard Romeo]

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.
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I would say that Pynchon doesn't necessarily accept the idea of an exalted 
state, but that he probes what mankind has driven itself to, based on that 
supposed goal.  Many of his characters have such aspirations, but at what 
price:  Pokler's naivete, Weissman's brutal aesthetics, Frenesi's dream of 
living outside the system, e.g.

In some ways, that exalted state is otherwise known as America, and as we 
see in M&D, it's conception, if you will, was perverted from the beginning.

Rich

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