GR 'Streets' (death and/or afterlife)

[pynchonoid]

--- jbor <jbor at bigpond.com> wrote:
> My original point [...]


I'm coming in late on this thread. In addition to what
I wrote in my previous post, I can't disagree with
anything jbor says below.
-Doug


> [...] And I do agree that Pynchon's texts allow the
> possibilities of afterlife and
> supernatural phenomena, in different shapes and
> forms. Of course, these are
> not confined to the sorts of things which a
> Christian worldview would always
> agree with. And, at times, as in the chaplains
> paragraph or the earlier
> "Miraculous Medal ... carcasses" passage, the text
> also allows or uses the
> possibility that there is no afterlife: it also
> allows the possibility that
> a god or gods do not exist. This is where "both/and,
> not either/or" comes
> into play, as one of the identifying features of
> postmodern fiction.
> Different, purportedly mutually exclusive,
> ontological systems coexist as
> possibilities within the text. And, in my opinion,
> this type of pluralism
> and respect for what different people and different
> peoples do and don't
> believe is a healthy thing for human society in
> general.
> 
> best
> 


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