"What would TRP do?

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> > What do you make of his frequent mysterious neo-masonic 
> >references?
> >
> 
> Nothing mysterious about that. It's all laid out bare in GR 580-591, the 
> story of Lyle Bland. Especially p. 587: "There is a theory going around 
> that the USA was and still is a gigantic Masonic plot under the ultimate 
> control of the group known as the Illuminati.[...]" But remember, it is 
> literature, not a treatise. He uses this wide-spread theory for the 
> purpose of rendering the mind of the reader even more responsive to the 
> atmosphere of conspiracy permeating the entire novel. Many people I know 
> have confessed being unable to read GR because of "what it did" to their 
> minds. That's part of it. Pynchon wants the reader to feel as threatened 
> and "paranoid" as Slothrop.

I agree with this; however, he spends more time on Masonism than on 
the Illuminati, from my recollection. Not to mention GR fading out 
into a qabbalistic reading.

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