Chapter 45: Body & Soul

[David Morris]

This is very good (the whole post) and, I think, correct.  But Aren't the 
angels/golems/ducks a speculation of the way out, some kind of escape?  Does 
Eddins acknowlege the golem (I know MD waspublished after this book)?

David Morris

>From: Terrance <lycidas2 at earthlink.net>
>
>   These considerations constitute the parameters that generate
>   the complex RELIGIOUS DIALECTIC (my caps) of Pynchon's
>   fiction: a fluctuating tension between nostalgia for cosmic
>   harmony and commitment to amoral power worship, superimposed
>   upon the fluctuating tension between the notion of a
>   neutral, structureless universe and that of a universe
>   infiltrated by insidious structures of Control.
>
>   *The Gnostic Pynchon*  Dwight Eddins,  Cutter's University
>   Press  1990




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