MDDM Ch. 70 Higher Assembly

[Terrance]

Doug says, 
> 
> See above.  It's fruitless, in my opinion, to try to judge Pynchon's
> personal take on these things by trying to work backwards from his novels
> to the man.   I am interested in what his novels have to say about them,
> and many other topics, however.

If not from his novels, can you work backwards, that is, discover P's
take on things (politics, war, spirituality, etc.) from his
"interviews", letters, blurbs, essays? Or is this a fruitless endeavor? 

Or are you saying you are only interested in what these texts ( novels,
essays, blurbs, letters) have to say and not what Pynchon has to say?