GRGR Nothingness (was Re: Pynchon as propaganda)

[Paul Mackin]

On Mon, 2003-04-07 at 00:42, davemarc wrote:
> From: Paul Mackin <paul.mackin at verizon.net>
> 
> > So far, nothingness seems to mean a lack of God's grace.
> >
> > Nothingness is the Christian 'Other.'
> >
> Isn't this consistent with Dostoevski's portrayal of Svidrigailov in Crime
> and Punishment...and with some of the (religious) imagery in Paradise Lost?

I'd say so. Svidrigailov freely opts for nothingness. A free
existentialist man.

Doestoevki is theism in it's most extreme form. In his awareness of the
nothingness without God.

If there is no God, all is permitted.

And if we come out of nowhere we are headed for oblivion. Don't know it
he said this or was it someone else but it represents his position
perfectly I think..

P.