Pynchon's "knewspeak"

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> I can see your side of the argument too. I just don't think that the
> allegorical format of GR -- if there is a coherent one -- conforms to, or is
> circumscribed by, Biblical mythography or ethics, though these things are
> certainly interrogated in and through the text. I think the crux of my point
> is that Pynchon's work is very much post-Nietzschean -- "Modern", in a
> philosophical sense -- whereas Milton's is not. It has to be so. Pynchon,
> whether "Christian" or not, does not have the luxury of leaving Nietzsche
> out of the mix.

Pynchon is so discursive as a whole, it will be possible to apply his 
thought to almost any dogma; what he might do, as others have in the 
past, is offer an interpretation including a re-interpretation of 
Christianity, which is of an archetype well-known to metaphysicians.

I mean, look at the religion... once it hit Europe, it splintered 
into many fractions, each of which attempting its own interpretive 
methodology.

Could it be that Pynchon is the equivalent of an Arianist, or a 
Meister Eckhart in his own right? One with a seemingly small 
doctrinal difference from the crowd that translates into a 
significant space of different theory? My supposition is that he is 
not enamored of distinct categorical divisions, thus absolute 
morality might take a backseat during everyday encounters (and be 
strictly mythical), but...



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