pynchon-l-digest V2 #1443

Otto Sell o.sell at telda.net
Tue Oct 3 08:38:02 CDT 2000


>
> I think I can understand how a critic at the extreme end of the
> post-modern spectrum, who wants to promulgate as absolute truth the
> assertion there are no moral absolutes
>

This is a contradiction in itself. It is part of the postmodern program that
there are no such things like "absolute truth" or other outer-systematic
reference points like "God," "History" or "moral absolutes." It is program
in V., GR and M&D too to show that all of these are just human concepts.

Otto ;-)






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