ATD | Kabbalah & Divine Light (HUGE SPOILER - only read if you finished!)

[robinlandseadel at comcast.net]

             Mark Kohut:
             So I’m wondering if anyone has any idea, 
             either suspicion or gleaned from some 
             source somewhere, about TRP’s feelings 
             about Kabbalah.  While reading GR, it 
             seems like he parodies it entirely but he 
             does it with … what I could only describe 
             as some perverse respect… while he 
             seems to poke fun… it seems like the fun 
             an insider would poke.

Yes. I think he's even more into the (?)aballah than anyone else I've 
read who issues forth publications labled: "Fiction" (with the possible
 exception of Borges). Harold Bloom calls himself a Kabbalist and says 
the Trystero really exists (after re-reading COL 49 [after going through 
this section of AtD], I agree). Pynchon has just unmasked one of his 
biggest influences in the section we're about to finish, capisce?

Lon Milo DuQuette is a real maven on the (*)aballah, and he's also a non-stop jokster.

http://www.lonmiloduquette.com/