Is Pynchon antirationalist?1-6

[Joseph Tracy]

Very good stuff. This careful reading and interp dovetails nicely with the ideas Cowart develops. In the essay exerpted by jbor. which he will forward  offlist to those interested.  )  
Pynchon and the Sixties
David Cowart. Critique. Washington: Fall 1999.
Vol.41, Iss. 1;  pg. 3, 10 pgs
Abstract
Operating from the premise that very few post-modernists divorce themselves
from moral and social issues, Cowart illustrates Thomas Pynchon's bare
vocalization of a moral stance on issues such as racism and genocide.

So is it further implicit in the Osbie Feel, Roger Mexico passage that what is missing from the  Pointsman style rationality is connected to the ecstatic (sexuality,  the heartfelt erotic vs. the career erotic, drug or emotion induced insight into the conspiratorial aspect of large systems and the culture of militarism, humor and madness as a primal force of liberation, empathy as a result of some kind of cosmic conciousness embracing the full electromagnetic  and cultural  rainbow ), and the primitive excremental sense of what is healthy , friendly and lifegiving and what is shit( Roger points out with his pecker that their rational system is a urinal, shit has its proper role,  but as Pudding demontrates, food is not one of them. What good is reason if you can't tell the difference.
  I would like to see some of these arguments brought to bear on Is it OK to be a Luddite.  
Joseph Tracy
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