Pynchon's "knewspeak"

[Scott Badger]

Richard Ryan:
>Then I went back and looked at some of the individual
>scenes in which Satan truly shines -- the exhortation on the lake of fire,
>the confrontation with the patrol of angels in Eden -- and, damn, it's hard
>not to root for Lucifer.

A point where, to my reading, Satan and Blicero sharply diverge. Rather than
rooting for Blicero, the reader, as Terrance said before, feels some degree
of pity. And while also a god, isn't it Blicero's humanity that the reader
both pities and fears?

>Like a lot of great books, "Paradise Lost" is at war with itself.

...and at war with the reader.

Scott Badger