: Re: ATDTDA (14) p 398: General Spoilers re the Chums' ending in ATD

[mikebailey at speakeasy.net]

Mark Kohut 

>    this p-list had a discussion not long ago on whether TRP 'believes" in >angels.....
>    Reflecting on Mike's recent post and the whole presentation of the Chums, I >think TRP
>    has now answered that definitely with AtD..........see abopve post and the >answer is
     
>    NO....they are fiction, he says (in AtD's character ontology).
 
In Vineland, there's speculation about
angels in a way, a being one letter of whose
name would involve 8 human lives (and deaths)    
  
There's an essay in Pynchon Notes about Pynchon's
angels, Rilke's angels, and the angels of everyday
commerce (greeting cards & so forth) which
takes the question up as well, suggesting that
elements of dread attach to Pynchon's and Rilke's
angels which are foreign to the Hallmark variety.

>From AtD, we get right at the outset that
if there are Angels, the Chums aren't any conventional
kind of them.  The Catholic populace in Chicago
is imputed to perceive differences in these airfarers.
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