grgr: overcoming of metaphysics

[Michel Ryckx]

I suppose it went like this: mr. Pynchon, sitting at his desk and having read (an
article on) Heidegger, thinks: 'Let's put a bit of the man's ideas in it.  It will
confuse them further and confusion is my game.'

Can anybody tell me how reading/quarreling Heidegger can make reading mr. Pynchon's
works more interesting?  Besides, ever since I heard he (Heidegger) used bad Greek
etymology (I remember a classical scholar once explaining that 'alèthèia' (truth)
has nothing to do with 'analanthanomai' (uncovering)), he was using bad methods,  a
philosopher unworthy.  Or was that another German philosopher?  I seem to confuse
them all the time.  Having no degree myself at all (I left school at 18) I think
reading is rewarding in itself:  it will not change me -I think- but it will only
make me happier, sometimes.

2 years earlier he found and old book on Kabbala and/or gnosticism.  'Why not', he
thinks, 'it will get me a Nat. Book Award anyway.  They will eat it.  Besides, I am
becoming the Greta Garbo of American literature.'  And so they ate and still do.

If someone can point out that gnosticism/Kabbala/Heidegger and other things really
has influence mr. Pynchon's writings, it will interest me.  Otherwise: not.

On the way home from the library he found a class with 150 pupils in it.  He
couldn't find a way to put THAT in.

Kind regards,
Michel