"The Evacuation still proceeds..." GR, p1

[Humberto Torofuerte]

The primary theme of the works of Pynchon is the fatal flaw, and subsequent
meaninglessness, of the Logocentric equivalence of the Heisenberg principle
and Shroedinger's cat. In subsequent chapters the subject is contextualised
into a postdialectic paradigm of context that includes culture as a whole.
It could also be said that Pynchon suggests the use of the subtextual
paradigm of consensus to modify reality.


On 10/23/05, jporter <jp3214 at earthlink.net> wrote:
>
> Unlike the calculating Wrath of The Intelligent Designer
> (WID) which led, according to ID enthusiasts, to the
> image we see in the mirror each morning, the Wrath of God
> (WOG) is something from which we have been fleeing since
> long before Rita, Katrina and the collapsing Twin Towers.
>
> WOG, in it's peculiarly western version, has had us on the run
> since Yahweh slammed shut the Gates of Eden.
>
> It might be worth noting, also, that prior to this prolonged
> tantrum directed towards humanity, WOG was directed at a
> whole series of often cranky and vain, if less megalomaniacal
> deities, who served us well, before the dominance of monotheism.
>
> Despite that, the opening evocation of GR has always struck
> me as generic, rather than specific, in its intention. I reject
> the idea that The Evacuation is "about" the Holocaust alone,
> although, certainly, there are over (and under) tones.
>
> The advent of a centralizing principal around which the swirl
> of written history, like the skirts of V., sorts Itself out, is
> seductive,
> and may be the Logocentric equivalent of the Field Theory of
> Gravity.
>
> I think, however, that the over-arching intention of the opening
> evocation suggests a connection- tracking through the furtive
> warren-like passages of western epistemology- between mono-
> theism and science, which, if left unrecognized, leads to bad things.
>
> jody
>
>
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