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[jbor]

>> http://www.themodernword.com/pynchon/pynchon_essays_sloth.html
>> 
>> The thing that strikes me rereading this essay, apart from the incorporation
>> of some satirical Ben Franklin stuff left over from _M&D_, is that second
>> last paragraph where he talks about "the state of our souls". It's not a
>> conclusive statement of his own beliefs, but it certainly seems to be a
>> sincere expression of tolerance and respect towards Christian faith.
> 
> 
> I don't know about that. I don't think P is talking about his beliefs at
> all. Or tolerance and respect toward Christian faith. This paragraph is
> a very good example of
> Pynchon nostalgia:  modernist nostalgia for a quality of human
> consciousness that a logos beyond human agency seems once to have
> empowered. 

Yes, it's not conclusive by any means, but it was the phrase "the state of
our souls" which struck me.

Typically, I can't make head nor tail of the point Eddins is trying to make
in the quote below.

> To insist that Pynchon  "satirizes the longing" Eddins
> quoting Hohmann) that drives this process is to deny, in a
> postmodern privileging of indeterminacy, the logos of that
> well evidenced norm by which he condemns the betrayers of
> the earthly and the human. GP.119

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