Pynchon's Preterite

[pynchonoid]

It cuts deep.  I can't read the Passover story without
thinking about all the children God kills, their
suffering parents, siblings, friends, etc. (The story
is revived in the New Testament narratives of Jesus'
birth and childhood.) In GR it's the Nazis (with help
from multinational corporate friends, GR also
explains) who kill the Jews and other Holocaust
victims, including those at Dora - but they are not
"passed over" by history or literature, because of GR
among many other publications.  The anger -- the
narrator's if not definitively Pynchon's -- here at a
God who lets them suffer and die reminds me of Job's
righteous anger at God.

You've put your finger on a passage that's very
important to GR - from the opening sequence that Meg
pointed out earlier, all the way through to all of us
huddled in the movie theater waiting for the final
bomb to drop at the novel's end. 


--- jbor <jbor at bigpond.com> wrote:> 
> The prisoners in Dora are described as part of "the
> Humility, the multitudes
> who are passed over by God and history." (299) If
> there is an ironic
> allusion to the Jewish Passover it's right there.
> 
> 

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