Eliade & Boyarin

[Dave Monroe]

No, sorry, just wanted to sort out exactly what the
issue is here, is all.  Whether or not Eliade et al.
are ultimately, defensibly correct is one thing, what
their influence on, resonance with, whatever,
Pynchon's texts is another, and to what extent those
aspects of Pynchon rise or fall with said rectitude is
perhaps a third (all sorts of fictional works have
bought into all sorts of wacky and long since
discredited, or, at least, problematized, ideas, but
...), but ... 

But I'm obviously getting testy about the propensity
to argue, not even for argument's sake, but for the
sake of arguing WITH a given person here, so ... well,
just asking that we all take a close look at our
motivations, what we want to accomplish here, is all
...

--- Terrance <lycidas2 at earthlink.net> wrote:
> 
> Who? Me? Harping? Slowly the multiple climbed into
> the lifeboat and it sank.

But, without time or energy or even inclination to go
much further on the subject here, I will at least
speculate that perhaps those Pynchonian texts, as they
do with so much of what went (and continues to go)
into them, doesn't necessarily take up that
linear/cyclical binary in any simple, straightforward,
unproblematic and/or unproblematized way ...

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