Is it OK to be a Luddite?

[Christian KUmpe]

Yep, TP could be bloody well right with that innuendo on nanotechnology and
VR-full immersion and the possibility to get lost in some kinda matrix...at
least that´s  what I associate with the dark ending. Yet the problem with
prophecies and other corny gags is the interpreter and not the author. Maybe it´s
a joke and maybe not. And the idea that TP is open for both appeals to me.
SO I vote for the mindless adoration of the prophet reading...that means TP
has seen our predicament before. so we could relate our interpretations a bit
more to what we consider our shared reality and/or future.

read you

Christian

The clincher for me on the essay is the quirky (cranky, apocalyptic)
> ending--including those "converging curves" that Pynchon jokingly wants to
> go on record insisting we heard about  first from him. What's  wrong with
> a
> joke we might ask.  What wrong is that perhaps up to this point we were
> taking his glib summary of events at face value but now we are suddenly
> faced with the possibility that the whole thing is a big put on. Of course
> we don't know for sure. This kind of ambiguity goes better with novel
> writing that nonfiction. Of course in the end what difference does a silly
> newspaper piece make. We still love you Tom.
> 

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