Gorman ("The Specter") Takeshi & Neo-Freudian Revisionist Quackery
Ghetta Life
ghetta_outta at hotmail.com
Mon Jan 5 16:35:00 CST 2004
>From: Terrance <lycidas2 at earthlink.net> >
> > I don't think he embraces Gnosticism, but it is a useful model as a
>religion
> > that points to a fucked-up world that is unavoidably so, one inherently
> > structurally "flawed." And, unlike traditional Xianity, it questions
>the
> > "goodness" of the god which created it, which seeems an honest appraisal
> > rather than a whitewash for the god.
>
>The world, the earth, as the Ancient Jews believed, is good in Pynchon's
>novels.
>
>They, THEM, The FIRM, are the Gnostics. Blicero is Their godman.
>
>See The Gnostic Pynchon by Dwight Eddins
>Publisher: Bloomington Indiana University Press,
>c1990. ISBN: 0-25331-907-2
The pre-laspsarian earth was good. But it has been infected by Death.
Blicero as Their godman can only ultimately be an aspect of postlaspsarian
consciousness gone awry, out of balance. THEY have an office in our
craniums...
Ghetta
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