Pynchon and "faith"

[Cyrus]

Billy Internicola wrote:

> I've always thoughtthat pynchon left the door open for some sort of 
> (non-traditonal I'm sure) spirit life and "God". Certainly the Advent 
> service in GR as well as several sections of M &D seem purposely 
> ambiguous. Roger Mexico, Slothrop at times, certainly Mason have 
> always struck me as possibly reflecting Pynchon's own 
> ponderings/doubts reffering life after death, etc.


(Presonal view alert)
Pynchon writes about the human situation. This obviously includes 
religion, as well as other, truly whacky, forms of metaphysics, as well 
as conspiracy theory (which he connects to paranoia, mind you).

That said, why is it important to you to find echoes of Pynchon's own 
opinions in his work? Why do you want to know what a writes thinks? 
Isn't his writing enough? And these are honest questions -- I am really 
interested in listening to your answers.

I know other p-listers disagree with this, but you, as a reader, are 
supposed to interact with the book, not with the personal views of the 
author -- which are often not so evident anyway. And in reading Pynchon, 
no matter what your personal views are, you will be able to interpret 
and identify with lots of situations, characters, ideas etc. What's at 
play here is your own POV, not so much the author's.

Cyrus