OFF Re: pynchon's religion

[jbor]

And once more. Bravo!

Thanks again

r

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>From: Eric Rosenbloom <ericr at sadlier.com>
>To: "Discuss.List Pynchon" <pynchon-l at waste.org>
>Subject: Re: pynchon's religion
>Date: Thu, Feb 8, 2001, 9:51 AM
>

> Speaking of return, Gottfried's entry into the rocket is described as a
> return to the womb: this is a reverse birth, a return to the origin for
> a perfect death. But of course the rocket is not a womb. It is a bomb.
> This act of putting his beloved in the rocket (custom-designed) is the
> ultimate act of Weissman's faith.
>
> --
> Eric R
>
> Narcoleptic Fat Boy & Black Pip wrote:
>>
>> Eric Rosenbloom wrote:
>> >
>> > Final words: I think these excerpts support the idea that Pynchon thinks
>> > the State, the Firm, the System, the Faith are pretty much the same
>> > thing, and Their whiteness is the whiteness of Death. The salvation they
>> > promise crumbles even as They offer more, whiter, cleaner.
>> >
>> > Forgive me,
>> > Eric R
>>
>> And the Rocket is it's SOUL!
>
>
>
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