Out of the pit and into the flames...

[Dr. Concrescence]

I personally belive P's 'faith' is in his ability to
completely and utterly enter into a POV, and become
that POV- Which means a plunge into the nefarious
Christian beliefs of many of his character, whether
they be animate/inanimate or the grey automaton...
Finding Christian Themes in Pynchon's Text is no more
or less difficult than finding Buddhist- Hindu- or
ancestor worshiping thematic structures- rather it
reveals the bias of the reader or critic... I defy
anyone to point to anything in a Pynchon text which
does not come from a Point of View, which on
consideration is 'Not That of The Authors' Pynchon
Text is so embedded in an experiential gestalt of
shifting modes of consciousness that one is hard put
to 'rely' on the author to clue one in to the goings
on... He deftly moves in and out of POV- That really
ultimately one is forced to consider one's own
experience as the guiding light- Not the author's...

Which causes the most remarkable
phenomenom:Extra-textual encounters- Where for a
moment it seems that Pynchon is scripting 'outside the
book'... When I first read GR- There is a remarkable
scene where the POV (sorry I don't want to check the
text) suddenly is of someone passing over the
bay-bridge and for a moment think they are on the
Brooklyn Bridge... I set the book down and walked over
the streets of San Francisco- To a friends house- The
first thing he said to me? " I had the strangest
experience today... For a moment while driving over
the Bay Bridge I thought it was the Brooklyn
Bridge..." And I was of course floored and amused...
So Yes- We can all Parade our Bias- P is a gnostic
X-ian, or the 'Relationship between Modern UFO cults
and Pynchons view of methamphetamine psychosis in the
pizza cults of the Upanishdad- with a discursion into
Elvis's roots in Mesopatamia' But ultimately It
describes our personal Bias-In other words it is safer
to run a Freudian analysis on 'Why Pig Bodine loves
Big Guns and Machines' then On 'Why Pynchon loves the
Navy' We are never allowed to get that close to TP...

Dr. Con

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