Plato & One History * One Bad Earth & One God

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Scott Badger wrote:
> 
> I won't have time to go digging till Monday, but in MD there seem to be
> several allusive (and not so allusive) references to an innate evil in "the
> land" - specifically, America.  There was some discussion during MDMD about
> a possible (and somewhat surprising) change in Pynchon's attitude in this
> regard.  Check out Vaska's posts, if you can find them.
> 
> Scott Badger

I would like to read those posts. Any idea when in the
discussion this was discussed? 

In the Short Stories, V., CL49,  P does not yet present his 
Catholic/Orphic
counter theology, part of which includes the revaluation of
the Eden myth, the denial of the serpent inspired Fall by
which Nature and the Flesh  were  supposedly devalued. This
is GR.   But it is present in VL. It's quite tricky, but I
think it's in M&D too.