Blicero's "politics"

[jbor]

>> While he is revered as a "god-like" figure, or saviour, by many of the
>> characters, he is most decidedly represented by Pynchon as human. All too
>> human, you might say.

 
on 24/2/03 6:59 AM, Scott Badger at lupine at ncia.net wrote:
>
> Yes. And isn't it his (gnostic?)desire to transcend, to become a god, that
> lies at the center of his humanity?

Yes, I think so. He certainly craves transcendence. But I'm not so sure that
he is "gnostic", or that he ever truly believes himself to be a "god"; more
that his disciples and followers have sought to elevate him to godhead.

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