Out of the pit and into the flames...

[alfredjprufrock at club-internet.fr]

doctor, doctor, can you see the real me?
i totally agree with your POV, doctor. :)

greg


Monday, July 29, 2002, 6:10:13 AM, you wrote:

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

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

DC> Dr. Con

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