Pynchon's Badass

[Otto]

Has anybody mentioned the Pynchon-intro to Jim Dodge's "Stone Junction"
(Grove Press, New York, 1990, 1997)
where he talks about that topic:

(...)
"If we accept the notion that using power against the powerless is wrong, a
clear enough set of corollaries begins to emerge. We become able to
distinguish, as populations (though not always their rulers) have usually
been able to do, between outlaws and evil-doers, between outlawry and sin.
Not much analysis is needed, because it is something we can sense in all its
dead-serious immediacy. "But all they are are bandits," the rulers whine
indignantly, "motivated only by greed." Sure. Except that, having long known
the difference between theft and restoration, we understand the terms of the
deal whereby outlaws, as agents of the poor, being more skilled and
knowledgeable in the arts of karmic readjustment, may charge no worse than
an agent's fee, small enough to be acceptable to their clients, ample enough
to cover the risks they have to take, and we always end up loving theses
folks, we cheer for Rob Joy, Jesse James, John Dillinger, at a level of
passion usually reserved for sports affiliation.
(...)
One popular method of resistance was always just to keep moving--seeking,
not a place to hide out, secure and fixed, but a state of dynamic ambiguity
about where one might be at any given moment, along the lines of
Heisenberg's uncertainty principle. Modern digital machines, however,
managed quickly enough to focus the blurred ellipsoid of human freedom even
more narrowly than Planck's Constant allows."
(xi-xii)