Pynchon and the Bible

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In a message dated 2/4/01 10:34:07 PM, millison at online-journalist.com writes:

<< So, setting aside the notion of Pynchon as author and setting up 
instead some sort of notion of his works as socially constructed -- 
some of you have far more facility with the relevant lit-crit lingo 
here -- it might be fun to think of his fiction, if gathered together 
between the covers of a single volume, as "a product of the hopes, 
fears,
and ambitions of the kingdom of America, culminating in the reign of 
King Bush at the end of the twenty-first century CE in the Early 
Silicon Age," the sort of literary/religious/historical work that 
could be used, together with the future ruins of this "civilization", 
to recreate its history, assuming, that is, anybody will still be 
around to take the trouble.>>

And wouldn't it be a pleasant surprise for that Stencil of the future when 
finally the distant mirrored was meticulously assembled, cleaned and 
polished- like some advanced version of the Hubble- and upon gazing in was 
greeted by the unmistakable reflection of its own Inanimacy?


mu