ATDDTA (8) By Hook Or By Crook (213:12ff)

[robinlandseadel at comcast.net]

            Keith:
            Considering just how many allusions to the kitchen sink
            emerge in the  pages of Against the Day, I would have 
            to venture that most passages  through the novel have 
            readings other than any particular reading. 

See, I'm looking at what's about to happen in about 5 pages or so, and the way 
that explosive interaction---the potential fusing of Lew Baslight's illuminated 
gift as Detective Extraordinaire and Nicholas Nookshaft's well known 
post-theosophical spiritual acomplishments and influence, purely and 
transcendently in the most occult of spheres---changes my entire point of view 
as regards all of Pynchon's books. Seriously. Suddenly, all the dominos fall 
over in a neat little line.

            Keith:
            The fun of a group read is seeing what is evoked in the 
            minds of this  motley crew of readers.

I think you forgot the umlauts.

            (BTW, my reading of the Jeshimon passage is impurely Christian.)

There's plenty that's Satanic, alright---you wanna read Satanic as inverted 
Christian, get no lip from this quarter. 'Course, if you spend your time hangin' 
upside down, well---I suppose that's what Christianity would look like after a 
while, eh? Ya know, the collective p.o.v.s of Yogi's, stoners, Leftists, 
Anarchists, Quabalists---you know, the sort of people who populate Against the 
Day?

On May 3, 2007, at 8:29 AM, robinlandseadel at comcast.net wrote:

Considering just how many allusions to Shamanism emerge in the pages
of Against the Day, I would have to venture that Webb's passage through
Jeshimon has probable readings other than the purely Christian.