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[Michael Bailey]

On 2/6/06, Toby G Levy <tobylevy at juno.com> wrote:
>         Wicks philosophizes that death is "the Despair at the Core of
> History" and that the resurrection of Christ is the reason for hope in
> the study of history. I'm not sure exactly what this means in the
> context of this story.
>

well, as a preacher, he must needs say that.  But coming from
Pynchon's selected narrator, it may be a meaningful highlight (like
the little patch of orange in a Picasso painting whose interpretation
figured mightily in a quite good short story that I can't remember
anything else about right now) that provides a context for the whole
tale