Spiritualism v. Secularism

[Dave Monroe]

I wouldn't say he so much stands in the middle
(Pynchon as centrist?  "Mainstream"?  Recent American
politics  ought to make us suspicious of such
constructions ...) ...

“She had heard all about excluded middles; they were
bad shit, to be avoided ...” (Lot 49, p. 150)

... (those "middles" aren't points, they're continua)
as he doesn't stand anywhere in particular, not for
long ...

"It's doubtful if he can ever be 'found' again, in the
conventional sense of 'positively identified and
detained.' " (GR, Pt. IV, p. 712)

... though a la yr subatomic particles, there tend to
be some statistical likelihoods nonetheless ...

--- Chris Broderick <elsuperfantastico at yahoo.com>
wrote:

> ...  Pynchon seems to focus a lot of attention on
> these kinds of oppositions: Christianity v.
Paganism,
> Religion v. Science, phallus v. rocket.  And though
> his characters may stand on one side or another,
> I'd submit that the narrator stays right in the
middle. 
> In the v period, as it were.

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