douglas fowler

[lorentzen-nicklaus]

Otto schrieb:

> ----- Original Message -----
> 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.


           damn, you people sound like luhmannians ... kai