re Re: death and afterlife in Pynchon's fiction WAS GR 'Streets'

[Mark Wright AIA]

Howdy

--- pynchonoid <pynchonoid at yahoo.com> wrote:
(snip)
they also affirm a cosmology that
> includes the persistence of life (individual
> personality, too) after death, and in other realms
> (Lyle Bland's travels, for example) beyond those which
> are described by Enlightenment and post-Enlightment
> science; this is a given in Pynchon's fictional
> universe.
> 
> His fiction does affirm the possibility that the
> afterlife is not the streets-paved-with-gold of the
> Christian Heaven; it's described at times as a boring
> or even frighteningly bureaucratic, Kafkaesque realm. 
> 
> Pynchon also moves characters (not "dead" yet) into
> states of consciousness that are described in
> spiritual and religious literature but which are not
> supported by Enlightenment and post-Enlightment
> science.  Again, this is a given in the fictional
> universe that he creates. 
(snip)

"fictional universe" "fiction" "fiction universe"
This is fiction. Pynchon is making it up as he goes along, composing a
story, cooking up confections worthy of the Disgusting English Candy
Drill. He needn't believe in an afterlife to make use of it. Look upon
his works and despair...
Mark

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