Pynchon as propaganda

[Paul Mackin]

On Sat, 2003-04-05 at 03:58, jbor wrote:

> My point is more that "nothingness" sticks out like a sore thumb in that
> list of Christian touchstones, and seems to refer directly to Sartre and
> atheistic existentialism.


Oh, THAT nothingness.

>  Don't know that death is necessarily a negative in
> the Christian ethos (or any religious ethos), which is where the
> motivational aspects of faith and baptism and martyrdom and the like come
> into play in wartime, but the concept of "nothingness" is a definite taboo.

When you're DEAD there ain't nothing left..


p.