AtD 836-837. A storm and "the mechanical realm"

[Mark Kohut]

836   "There was no light from anywhere." 
They are there, in the underworld. Hell.

  [Cf. "No light but darkness visible"--"Paradise Lost", John Milton.
   
  A-and  836 "the storm": ---Cf. 
" a crash, Of heavy thunder",.... 
I found me of the lamentable vale,  
The dread abyss, that joins a thunderous sound  
Of plaints innumerable."
----Divine Comedy, Cantos iv.]
   
  p.837 poor Cyprian...."another part of the mechanical realm"
Cf. " "V." and Benny's fear of the inanimate.....Cf. Pynchon's 
oeuvre.  Cyprian is now all feeling of the physical, the material world.
Which is hellish in P's vision?

       
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