what go around come around?

[prozak at anus.com]

> This circularity is, however, a pynchonian joke because, unlike TCL49,
> VL is an essentially teleological novel. The quote from Emerson is drawn
> from the late essay "The Sovereignty of Ethics" (1878), and as we saw in
> chapter 2, it is governed by the idea of liberal theology: The civil
> history of men might be traced by the successive meliorations as marked
> in higher moral generalizations;-- virtue meaning physical courage, then
> chastity and temperance, then justice and love;--bargains of kings with
> people of certain rights to certain classes, then of rights to
> masses,--then at last came the day when, as the historians rightly tell,
> the nerves of the world were electrified by the proclamation that all
> men were born free and equal" (187). Toward the end of the essay,
> Emerson declares that "man does not live by bread alone, but by faith,
> by admiration, by sympathy," and he predicts that "america shall
> introduce a pure religion" (202-3). 
> 
> VL demonstrates what that idea might look like in practice.

Or he could be punning on the entropian implications of "equal."

Tomorrow never knows...


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