AtdTDA: [38] Station Break

[Mark Kohut]

heaven is none of the above.

The whole sick crew grows up, gets married and settles down----flying up.

As above, so below.

Dunno

No, his A+ isn't "fair" 'cause it comes from one of society's schoolteachers, who WOULD see it that way. 


--- On Tue, 8/5/08, robinlandseadel at comcast.net <robinlandseadel at comcast.net> wrote:

> From: robinlandseadel at comcast.net <robinlandseadel at comcast.net>
> Subject: AtdTDA: [38]  Station Break
> To: "P-list" <pynchon-l at waste.org>
> Date: Tuesday, August 5, 2008, 9:16 AM
> Well, the Missus and I are off to the coast. As all of
> Oba's 
> books are lying in a heap on the floor next to me and as 
> I'm actually taking a little time off, there's a
> three-day 
> pause to absorb the transition into the present that the 
> book just went through. I don't know if I'll have
> access to a
> computer [probably will] but in any case Gail takes 
> precedence for the next three days.
> 
> So here's a few questions:
> 
> What's Heaven to You? Parnassus? Shambhala? Paris?
> Trieste?
> Seriously, because as far as I can tell, the Rue Du Depart 
> sequence is just as much about heaven as Gravity's
> Rainbow is 
> about hell.
> 
> "V." veterans? How much of this scene is a return
> to the scene of
> TRP's earlier literary crimes?
> 
> How do you get to heaven anyway? Faith? Works? Just making
> a habit of doing good without the expectation of anything
> in return?
> 
> Is Professor Vanderjuice really Professor Farnsworth?
> 
> Jesse gets an A+ for his paper on page 1076. Is this fair?
> 
> a-a-a-and what's with all these vectors anyway?
> 
> See ya on the funway, which is already in progress. . . .