GR 'Streets'

[Terrance]

Mark Wright AIA wrote:
> 
> Howdy
> 
> Seems to me that GR isn't anti-astrology or anti-Christian exactly, but
> that P uses and distorts such supernatural systems as a fabulist, much
> in the same way that he also uses and distorts natural, technological
> and enightenment systems in such things as Vaucanson's automata, the
> Rocket State, Dutch chronometers, prosthetic medicine, etcetera. The
> trans-animate and in-animate share equal billing with the animate and
> the humane, and not particularly hopeful about anything except human
> love and human friendship in the Here and Now of the story. He is
> spinning a yarn and weaving a web using anything and everything to
> hand, compounding a world not precisely congruent with our own in any
> particular you might point to. He makes cotton candy out of excrement
> and bile.

Love and human friendship. Yeah, this is really an excellent post. 

Slothrop and Geli (a novice Witch, what of her religion? seems to be a
pretty positive influence in the novel) atop the Brocken. A ritual.
Seems like a pretty positive view of religion. But then there is the
fact that the Hitler youth used that same "sacred space" (Eliade is
indispensable to a reading of Pynchon's use of the sacred/profane). We
get the story of Amy Sprue and another mention of Antinomianism.
Antinomianism is the charge against PAUL (very important figure in
Pynchon's novels--V., GR, M&D) and the Anabaptists. 

THEIR religion is the only one that is condemned by GR.