Sure sign of madness, wasRE: globalization & Pynchon?

[Doug Millison]

But I don't agree that people are helpless in the face of Nature.  Nature
may overwhelm us, but we can still choose what we try to do.  

Are you arguing that Pynchon's novels show us humanity at the mercy of
natural forces?  No agency at all?  I think that would be an eminently
debatable proposition.

Pokler has been duped and abused by the system, no doubt, and the limits of
his personal responsibility for the dead and dying Dora slave laborers are
difficult to establish -- still he exercises a choice.  He stops and makes a
gesture of kindness and solidarity, and conveys an object real exchange
value, when he commiserates with the dying woman and slips his gold wedding
band on her finger. He chooses to do this. He could have chosen to leave in
disgust without engaging anybody in any fashion.


calbert
You're intent on jamming the round peg into the square hole....I 
would counter, for every war, ten displays of the force of 
nature....the dead just stack up either way.....

love,
cfa