Zoyd's Dream.2 Pluralized Ontologies

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Be Like Mike wrote: 
> 
> As you suggest, Pynchon's odd coupling also serves to humanize Clara Bow,
> or decenter the socio-religious aspect of "The It Girl." While the naive
> perception is that her "Itness" was unmediated (She WAS It), the secondary
> sign points out that she was in fact part of a process, a cultural
> construction, even while it intends, ritualistically, to reactualize its
> transcendent character. (Within the celluloid temple, She signified "It"
> in which her frenzied, adoring audiences perceived absolute value.) This
> aspect of Clara Bow's constructedness redounds to further one of VL's most
> Pynchonesque, and Eleadeic, positions - that one can perceive the sacred
> in virtually anything - that everything (any music, any film-actress, any
> sexual or violent or nurturing or imaginative act) potentiates the
> essentially human experience of meaning or transpersonal coherence in a
> universe of dissolving parts.  What helps make VL so moving, and
> postmodern, is that it positively concretizes the world on these terms,
> rather than dismissing it with a sour, 'here be your gods, O Israel!'


For Eliade,  modern nonreligion  equals new and second "fall" of
humanity where the
sense of the sacred is hidden deep in the unconscious. 

The profane is progressively transformed into the sacred, into
participation in ultimate reality. 

But n the modern, profane world,  this must be done in the face of
desacralizing forces seeking to make the sacred into the profane.

Therefore, the sacred is  seen as the deepest human destiny, the lived
dream: 

      ... Redeem 
      The time. Redeem 
      The unread vision in the higher dream... 

-- T. S. Eliot, "Ash Wednesday"