Pynchon and "faith"

[Otto]

I think that regarding the function of religion, ideologies, myths, 
superstition in Pynchon's work something Keith has said is quite right:
"all of these conceptualizations are based on dualistic western 
philosophical presuppositions."

What Pynchon does is pointing to the structural similarities of all of 
these "dualistic western philosophical presuppositions", for example in 
the conversation between Tchitcherine and Wimpe (GR 701).
Which is of course the postmodern point of view.

Otto

>> 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.
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> (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
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