hope happily ever after

[Doug Millison]

"Pynchon, old romantic that he seems to be, always has to engineer at least
one "happily ever after"; and though there are darker overtones to the
reconciliation between Pappy and Paola, there is indeed hope."



http://www.visi.com/~contra_m/cm/features/cm15_borges.html
"There exists a tendency among secular literary critics today to 
uncover and reveal a humanistic vision behind even the most 
apparently Judeo-Christian literary works and their authors. In 
criticism of early American literature, witness the majority opinion 
that Puritan Anne Bradstreet grew beyond the allegedly narrow-minded 
religious focus that characterizes her early poetry, advancing in her 
later poems (published posthumously) to more earthly, personal 
concerns; the latter poems, of
course, are viewed as by far Bradstreet's best poems, according to 
most purveyors of this assessment). In more recent literature of the 
Americas, writers such as Emily Dickinson, or the twentieth-century 
Argentinian short-story writer Jorge Luis Borges, display throughout 
their bodies of work an ostensible interest in and search for 
spiritual truth; however, to describe what such writers do, with such 
terminology, seems to make the average secular critic uncomfortable, 
as it also might his or her secular audience. So instead, Dickinson, 
Borges, and other writers display a fascination with eternity, or 
some similarly safe, de-Christianized euphemism for what the writer 
really displays. Secular literary critics of twentieth-century 
literature seem consciously reluctant to admit that a modern writer 
such as Borges is searching for Christ, much less making anything as 
certain as a statement, much less a statement of truth."

Interesting article. Thanks for the pointer, Dave.




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