GR 'Streets' (death and/or afterlife)

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>>>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.<<<

Slothrop entertains the idea that the Return is to nonduality. In the
depolarized realm, there is no freedom and  no bondage. All opposites
vanish. But, to return to nonduality is to go back to sleep. The trick is to
do it and stay awake. They don't want you to do this. So long as They can
keep you convinced that nonduality is an impossible Return, They can
maintain immortality and feed on your death.