The Afterlife

[Toby G Levy]

Whoa!  I don't want to get into "opinions of the author,"  but the
continuity of life after death is one of the major streams that flow
through GR.  And I never read anywhere that Von Braun was being cynical
when he wrote those words.  

What about all those seances and the Angels in the sky and Enzian's
debates with the nihilists (just to name a few examples)?

Toby

On Sat, 27 Oct 2001 Otto wrote:

> Doug:
> > Does Pynchon never answer the questions he raises?
> > Seems to me he affirms a small set of positives again and again
> > in his writing:  love, community, family, respect for the Earth,
> > the continuity of life after death.
> 
> Ah, the last point . . . is said by the cynical Wernher von Braun as 
the
> opening quote of GR and I don't believe that this is meant to be  seen
in any
> way as the opinion of the author of the novel.

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