GR 'Streets' (death and/or afterlife)

[Scott Badger]

Paul:
> For Rapier return is a desired goal, the going back to a more
> paradisiacal state, though an elusive one, which may never be achieved.

In Pynchon's books, I don't recall any suggestion that a true return, to the
Garden, is possible. I wonder, even if Return were possible, whether
Paradise offers any more "freedom" than Rapier's critical mass of
connectedness/control.

Maybe freedom (through the possibility of change)lies in the tension between
the Force and the Counterforce, just as Terrance suggested that faith lies
between religious certitude and doubt.

Scott Badger