The Occult Life of Stamps (is RE: ATDTDA 719)

[Kai Frederik Lorentzen]

> The Golden Dawn is name-checked in there somewhere, > that's enough right there, there's your Enochian references right there, > now take it away Mr. Firstnighter!!!
 
No, it's not enough, since the book contains even more (Rilkean) Angels
than GR ... An actual Enochian reference is required here. 
 
> And I do believe that the Grace the > Chums are flying into is Christian Grace, is Buddhist Grace, is > Goddesses Grace--- hey folks, slack is slack: All Hail Bob!!!---but yeah, > way up there beyond the limitless light.
 
I do believe that the "grace" the novel is ending with is an expression of
Pynchon's gratefulness to have been able to come full circle with his art.
This does not necessarily carry a religious meaning. 
 
Kai 
 
PS: "I don't mean to be paradoxical but I thought of The Creature of Light
at that time as The Shadow, I guess because It had been cast by 
A Brighter Light --- it was A Mechanism or Device, It was not a living thing,
as we, the watchers, were." (Harold Brodkey: Angel)
 
 
 
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