Pynchon as propaganda

S.R. Prozak prozak at post.com
Mon Apr 7 20:18:52 CDT 2003


> Concepts like God and Death and Redemption and
> Salvation are capital-letter constructs in Christianity.

Judaism and Christianity introduced "binary" faith: you are good and evil, or with us, or against us.

Sounds like a G.W. Bush speech.

Everything is propaganda. Pynchon is at least self-acknowledgedly *ambiguous* propaganda, something extremely postmodern: distrust of the time and its "certainties."


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