VLVL2 - The Emerson Quote

[Toby G Levy]

The quotation from Emerson on page 369:

"Secret retributions are always restoring the level, when disturbed, of
divine justice. It is impossible to tilt the beam. All the tyrants and
proprietors and monopolists of the world in vain set their shoulders to
heave the bar. Settles forever more the ponderous equator to its line,
and man and mote, and star and sun, must range to it, or be pulverized by
the recoil."

To me this sums up the theme of the book, that no amount of temporal
power exempts "Them" from divine justice.  By defining "Them" as
government tyrants and private business owners, this reinforces my view
that Pynchon promotes the agenda of the disenfranchised, which is mostly
simple survival.

Toby

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