AtD blurb - "false" religiosity?

[Chris Broderick]

--- David Morris <fqmorris at gmail.com> wrote:

> On 8/17/06, Chris Broderick
> <elsuperfantastico at yahoo.com> wrote:
> >
> > Pynchon put it well when he said that intelligence
> is about learning the shape of one's own ignorance.
> 
> Where did he say that?

I think it was in the intro to Slow Learner, if I
remember it correctly, and am not just talking out of
my ass.

> Pynchon wouldn't waste his time on a work primarily
> meant as a
> commentary on current events, and I fully agree.

Primarily, sure.  But the refraction of a fictional
past with the present day is a consistent element of
all of his novels, from V. to M&D.  Considering the
appearance of Nixon in GR, pretty much everything in
Vineland, and the various anachronisms in M&D, it
seems silly to dismiss this out of hand.  Which is
exactly why the statement in the blurb dismissing any
relation to the present day comes across as ironic. 
That said, I'm sure that AtD is not going to be some
1000-page anti-Bush (or, for that matter,
pro-Bush)polemic.  Thank goodness.

-Chris

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