who's mystic?

[David Morris]

>From kai:
i did, in fact, not write "mysticism" but "mystic at work", & i did this 
with purpose.[...]  the author thomas pynchon now & then hints at things 
like esp [...] or the magical revival [...] in passages like these i cannot 
perceive any irony.

Me neither.  But trying to follow you, I take it that the difference you 
propose is that of an organized system vs. an unpredictable one.  Further, 
from your points below, it would be the individual experience vs. the 
collective proscriptive one.  "Isms" are interchangable, but spiritual 
experience is very personal.

>   sloth' psycho-spiritual "de-armorment" can be understood as a psychotic 
>development (this would be the observation according to so called 
>"scientific materialism"), or as a journey into bliss ... it's our choice!

I like this very much.  I think both sides are supported puposefully in GR.  
Most "serious" critics have a hard time taking the option of magic 
seriously.  Their loss.  For me, the only way to read Pynchon is to extend a 
very wide suspension of disbelief, yet always keeping the devil's advocate 
close by.  Do we really care what Pynchon believes?  It seems so, but that 
is only because he is such a good baiter.  If you try to bite his hook you 
might taste a rubber worm, or he may pull the real worm out of your reach.  
Ha!  Gotcha!

David Morris
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