pax pynchonia (was: Germany (was Re: 1945))

[Terrance]

I must say, it's always baffled me, your opposition to
*Gnostic Pynchon.* The first time I posted my response to
it, I attempted to make clear a  difficult theme in the
book, a theme that was introduced not by me, but another
poster, who had read the book and posted a response. In that
first post on Eddins, I too complained about Eddins' use of
Voegelin, but for different reasons than you had.  I felt at
the time that since Eddins admitted that there was no
evidence that he could discover that P had read V, his grid
imposed, as he calls it, was perhaps unwarranted. I've since
changed my opinion, at I noted, after reading some of
Voegelin, all of the cited material in fact. But what always
baffled me about the opposition to *Gnostic Pynchon* was
that the text is so positive in a sense that I thought you
of all posters would appreciate most. It is not, after all,
Voegelin that is so important to this positive, affirmative,
Orphic Naturalism, but Nietzsche, Music, Rilke, Magic. I
guess I emphasized the Gnotic transcendence,  as experienced
by Lyle Bland, the living mindbody of Earth's holy center,
and neglected the bananas.   

One of things that happened was that I ended up trying to
argue that Blicero was an evil character, a Nazi, (gnostic
in the the sense of wanting to transcend or send or have 
his "white son" transcend the Earth.  I still think this is
the case and don't care to go round on it again. He is a
very interesting and complicated character, much like
Milton's Satan, who is for me the most interesting, perhaps
most Human character in these respective texts.