Von Braun

[Dave Monroe]

On 10/11/07, Monte Davis <monte.davis at verizon.net> wrote:

> > "Manichaeans [...] see two Rockets, good and evil [...] a good
> > Rocket to take us to the stars, an evil Rocket for the
> > world's suicide, the two perpetually in struggle." (GR, Pt.
> > IV, p. 727)
>
> Yes indeed, about as good a sample of one pulse/impulse in GR as any single
> quotation could be. Where light's rainbow had been simply and singly God's
> promise of forgiveness, Gravity's version is ambivalent: either part of an
> orbit or a ballistic parabola from brennschluss to target. Kubrick was on
> the same scent with his weapon-bone-turned-satellite.
>
> That's not to say Pynchon *endorses* the Manichaean view ...

I think it's precisely NOT being endorsed there, in fact ...