GR 'Streets' (death and/or afterlife)

[Paul Mackin]

On Tue, 2003-04-22 at 09:29, David Morris wrote:
> 
> > > Paul Mackin wrote:
> > 
> > My inclination is not to try and push logic too far here. The "us"
> > "them" and "we systems are fashioned from the material of Pynchonean
> > fancy. Best to simply stand as still as possible and let the magical
> > language wash over you. In other words, the thing is not going to parse.
> 
> I strongly disagree with this last sentence, although I hear it repeated here
> from time to time.  It DOES parse, and it was meant to parse.  I don't mean the
> book as a whole, but individual sections, like this Hell section, are
> consistent and nailable, even in the details.  Not that you have to...


I'll amend my last sentence to "not ALWAYS going to parse."

P.