Pynchon as propaganda

[s~Z]

>>>Tillich knew the territory, having being a military chaplain in WW I.
Perhaps in one of the garrison-churches meditated upon in GR?<<<

Just imagine how comforting it would be to hear this under heavy fire:

"Certainly one can describe being in terms of non-being; and one can justify
such a description by pointing to the astonishing prerational fact that
there is something and not nothing. One could say that 'being is the
negation of the primordial night of nothingness.' But in doing so one must
realize that such an aboriginal nothing would be neither nothing nor
something, that it becomes nothing only in contrast to something; in other
words, that the ontological status of nonbeing as nonbeing is dependent on
being. Secondly, nonbeing is dependent on the special qualities of being. In
itself nonbeing has no quality and no difference of qualities. But it gets
them in relation to being. The character of the negation of being is
determined by that in being which is negated. This makes it possible to
speak of qualities of nonbeing and, consequently, of types of anxiety."

  --from 'Being, Nonbeing, and Anxiety' in Tillich's _The Courage To Be_.