AtDTDA: [38] p. 1085 They fly towards grace.

robinlandseadel at comcast.net robinlandseadel at comcast.net
Sat Aug 16 18:20:38 CDT 2008


Well, I was speaking about the multiple possible outcomes of a work 
where the Multiverse is an assumed. One interpretation could be that the 
Chums would fly into the Sun, another is that they really do find grace, 
their essential intent to do good ultimately pays off in time. One possible 
interpretation of the Bindlestiff's 90 degree angle is in covert operations, 
another is the Dianic Silver and the victory of the night being co-joined to 
Apollonian Gold and the victory of the Day—kinda like Die Zauberflote but
without all those good tunes.

One reading that I'll stick to is that the daylight [boys tales, suitable 
reading for the edification of the young] fictions of the Chums have 
been married to the nocturnal [underground, anarchist] myths of the 
flygirls. Like I said before, Against the Day ends bi-tonally, like the 
Richard Strauss tone poem "Also Sprach Zarathrustra." 

No single outcome would be possible in a Multiverse.

In any case, all of Pynchon's previous novels have unresolved, or 
at least somewhat ambiguous, endings.



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