GR 'Streets'

[Terrance]

s~Z wrote:
> 
> >>>All that SHIT you once believed, S~Z, is quite beautiful and elaborate
> and complex and it pervades every single line of Pynchon's fiction.<<<
> 
> I lived and breathed that shit and even went to seminary school, breaking
> through to some other sides in the process. Then, stumbling onto the likes
> of Pynchon and Gaddis and others and seeing all of the shit used to create
> art instead of destroying people's lives in the name of saving them, has
> been a delight. But, it does leave me with strong opinions about the
> imagery.

I'm not sure why you would construct this either / or. 

Either it destroys or it creates? Better that these religious ideas
create and not murder, but we're only human and there is always time for
both. What matter if human voices wake us or the words of prophets or
gods? We are all going to drown anyway. 

"Ain nothin gonna save you from dat!"

	--Milkman Dead 


"Yah, well, sometimes nothing can be a real cool hand."

	--Luke

If you have a copy of A Gravity's Rainbow Companion by Steven
Weisenburger take a look at page 263. Weisenburger is pretty good on
this stuff.