bloom on kabbalah in gravity's rainbow

[Lorentzen / Nicklaus]

 "comtemporary readers meet the  s e f i r o t  at the strangest places, for 
 example in malcom lowry's  u n d e r  t h e   v u l c a n o [?] or in thomas 
 pynchon's g r a v i t y' s   r a i n b o w, where these basic pictures of the 
 kabbalah are used to indicate the tragic patterns of over-determination through 
 which our lifes are somehow lived for us and not by us."

 (harold bloom: kabbalah and criticism [1975], quoted in own re-translation from 
 the revised german edition from 1997, p. 23)

actually, i do not think that this statement is in any way sufficient concerning 
trp's use of the kabbalah in gr. yet i thought some of you would be interested.

  kai //:: ps: in between the years i read bloom's "the anxiety of influence" 
           [1973] in the german translation of angelika schweikhart. what a 
           passionate book! anybody interested in discussing pynchon's anxiety 
           of influence? some candidates could be: melville, joyce, eliot, 
           musil, borges, rilke, gaddis, and - here the "slow learner" intro 
           would probably work well as a starting point for a debate - the 
           beats, especially kerouac and burroughs. "i'm not saying my style is 
           better than yours ..." (jurassic 5).