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

[David Morris]

--- Mark Wright AIA <mwaia at yahoo.com> wrote:
>
> --- 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...

Watch it!  You are rocking Doug's world.  For him Pynchon is religion, but only
in the most banal reading of the books.  Subtlety aint Doug.

David Morris



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