MDDM Ch. 65 strange inconsistencies

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In a message dated 7/28/02 11:25:50 AM, millison at online-journalist.com writes:

<< The sense of yearning for liberation and
the infrequent but intense focus on small moments of human solidarity
characterized by love and acceptance in Pynchon's texts seem to show an
inability to let  go of a powerful undertow of belief in something that
transcends material existence as we know it.  I think it's the co-optation
of that yearning in institutions that betray and abuse believers that
Pynchon's texts indict, but it's all nuanced and problematic.  Just my two
cents, don't have a cow, man.>>


I can see no evidence that "the infrequent but intense focus on 
small moments of human solidarity characterized by love and 
acceptance in Pynchon's texts" have anything particular to do
with christianity.

 "Pynchon's texts seem to show an inability to let  go of a 
 powerful undertow of belief in something that transcends 
 material existence as we know it."

I might agree here, but if anything, this "powerful undertow"
and the "inability to let [it] go" are portrayed as ironic or as 
the means by which greater forces result in death and
destruction. If anything, I see a recognition that "the sense
of yearning for liberation" is the real problem which itself
needs to be transcended, shrouded in imipolex and launched.

 "I think it's the co-optation of that yearning in institutions that 
 betray and abuse believers that Pynchon's texts indict..."

No question, but nowhere do I find the texts suggesting that
christianity is the answer to that dilemma. I do not think there
is a priviledging of any christian institution, belief system or
code of ethics.