Re. the "Slothropite heresy"

[Terrance]

jbor wrote:
> 
> I don't think, at least with Slothrop pondering his ancestor's heresy there
> on 555-6, it was ever a question of a return to some Eden. 

Nope he's not pondering that here. 
When I addressed a specific example from the text you
misread it as a general statement. 
Now I make a broader point and you misread it as my
misreading the specific example. 

So it goes, we can't communicate, but that's obvious
so...........

> 
> Pynchon's fascination with "road/s not taken" places him right in the midst
> of the American literary tradition btw.
> 
> best

Yeah, the "CENTRIFUGAL LURES" that tug at Americans
miraculously, calling us to 
explore the "EXPANSION OF POSSIBILITIES." [Slow Learner]

Kerouac, (again, the Parody of Paradise, i.e.  what Sal
learns/what Benny doesn't), Thoreau, Melville, Fitzgerald, 
Twain, Cooper, Kesey, Mailer, London,  Whitman, Steinbeck,
Frosty the blow man, was a snorting happy soul, with a
drippy tune and a silver spoon and two eyes like toilet
bowls, and I Yet knowing how way leads on to way,
I doubt if I should ever come back, so bye bye. 


OH, On March 14, 1956, William E. B. Du Bois, then age 88,
was barred from speaking at Levitown Hall by the Oyster Bay
Town Supervisors.  The ruling was based on the "fact" that
Du Bois and his organization were communist subversives 
according to the Attorney General of these United States. 

"Young Irish peasants were hunted down as men hunt down
game, and were forcibly put aboard ship, and sold to
plantations in Barbados."

				---W.E.B. Du Bois