GR 'Streets' (death and/or afterlife)

[Terrance]

Black, Joel D. "Probing the Post-Romantic Paleontology: Thomas Pynchon's
  Gravity's Rainbow."  Boundary vol. 2 no. 8 (1980): 229-54.




s~Z wrote:
> 
> "Because it's hard to get over the wonder of finding
> that Earth is a living critter, after all these years
> of thinking about a big dumb rock to find a body and
> psyche, he feels like a child again, he knows that in
> theory he must not attach himself, but still he is in
> love with his sense of wonder, with having found it
> again, even this late, even knowing he must soon let
> it go. . . ." (GR, 590)
> 
> Here this view is presented as a hallucination experienced by Lyle Bland,
> shortly before he gathers his family together to go Carlos Castaneda on
> them.
> 
> "Around 9:30 Buddy left to see THE BRIDE OF FRANKENSTEIN and Mrs. Bland
> covered the serene face with a dusty chintz drape she'd received from a
> cousin who had never understood her taste." (GR, 591)
> 
> So much for the substance of the Gaia reading of GR.