Pynchon's "knewspeak"

prozak at anus.com prozak at anus.com
Sat Feb 22 12:21:05 CST 2003


> I read Lewis's apologetic gloss *after* reading PL, and found it dazzling
> and persuasive.  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.   Like a lot of great books, "Paradise Lost" is at
> war with itself.

Art represents reality and its struggles, in itself.

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