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[David Morris]

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>Dialecticians, like Norman O. Brown, are important to Pynchon, but only as 
>crank theories.

I don't see that as the case at all.  GR and V are full of images and 
concepts N.O.Brown explores in _Life Against Death_, not that they are 
endorsements of Brown either.  You say TRP's core is religious, and I agree 
with you in the sense that it's all about making sense out of a 
death-oriented fucked-ip world.  Why is our world such as it is?  A very 
simple question with many attempted answers, all of which are incomplete.  
Brown's books are not theories, they are explorations, attempts to see if 
there's a "way out" of this mess, and attempts to figure out what is the 
nature of this mess, which starts with an examination of the nature of 
consciousness.

David Morris


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