douglas fowler

[Otto]

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From: Terrance <lycidas2 at earthlink.net>
To: <pynchon-l at waste.org>
Sent: Sunday, March 31, 2002 11:21 PM
Subject: Re: douglas fowler
>
> I beg to differ, in GR at least, the Western Christians have no more
> control over the running of the world than the Eastern non-Christians or
> anyone else. Little old Slothrop and his penis seem to be controlling
> quite a lot of the world in the novel. Moreover, those that think they
> can control the world or that they are somehow in control of nature are
> fatally mistaken.
>

Yes, of course, because "it" has become some self-running "machine" - it's
not the "Christians" but the pureley economical world that has been shaped
by Western Civilisation. Nobody controls it anymore.

Otto