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[Monte Davis]

> I think the reason paranoia and secret conspiracy theory now seem
> dated is that current conspiracies, such as the Bush 
> administration, are so transparent  What's to discover? For 
> us readers, I mean.

Could well be. To me Pynchon's conspiracies are metaphorical and
tongue-in-cheek, deployed much more to elicit the "Omygod... coulid it be?"
moments *in his characters' minds* than at making me believe in V., the
Trystero, Rilkean angels and the Firm, Vondian fascism, or global war
between the Clive-Maskelyne and Sino-Jesuit axes.

What I value is how he unfolds those moments into the universal human
experience of looking back -- at your own life as well as the public life of
your times -- and seeing progressive levels of bigger and deeper patterns
than you saw while the events were happening. Out of control, I suppose
that's paranoia; under his aesthetic control, it may just be the beginning
of wisdom.