AtDTDA: (8) 221 Agencies of the Angelic 2.

[Keith]

On May 7, 2007, at 8:01 AM, robinlandseadel at comcast.net wrote:

        "You found passage between the Worlds" 221. 18/19

"Between the Worlds" is where magic(k) happens.

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Pynchon's penchant for twilight (cf, nochecita and myriad references  
to twilight and crepusculosity) may be to its being the crack between  
the worlds:


  In the end of the book, one early evening don Genaro was lying on  
the ground, moving his arms and legs as if he were swimming. Don Juan  
said he was hugging the Earth, and that "Only the love for this  
splendorous being can give freedom to a warrior's spirit; and freedom  
is joy, efficiency, and abandon in the face of any odds." He then  
reminded the two new warriors, Carlos and Pablito, that "twilight is  
the crack between the worlds, the door to the unknown" and swept his  
hand over the northern edge of the mesa on which they were standing  
saying, "This is the plateau in front of that door." With those words  
don Juan and don Genaro faded away behind them as Pablito held  
Carlos' forearm and they said goodbye to each other. Then, in a  
moment like in "Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid" they began  
running together and jumped from the northern edge of the mesa into  
the door to the unknown as the book comes to an end with this sentence:

     [page 287] I felt his arm holding me as we jumped and then I was  
alone. http://www.doyletics.com/art/talesofp.htm