Repost: "The Big One"

[David Morris]

I suspect that you take magic/occult much more seriously that Pynchon
ever has.  Magic for you is like AF for Glenn.

GR is and ever has been Pynchon's "Big One."  He might as well have
stopped there.  Everything since has been downhill.  For me, of the
last three, Mason & Dixon was the best.  Still no GR.

David Morris

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On Wed, Jul 9, 2008 at 1:20 PM,  <robinlandseadel at comcast.net> wrote:
> Note the date.
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> Didn't have a copy in my hands tll two weeks before release.
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> Subject: The Big One
> Date: Tue, 08 Aug 2006
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> Something I have yet to hear mentioned here: What if "Against the Day " turns out to be "The Big One",

> the one that ties it all together? Here's my thoughts. The Occult elements of Pynchon always have been my focus. This just dawned on me: "Mason & Dixon" deals with the historical Mason/Dixon line between an age alchemical and an age scientific. Along with all those anachronisims and bad puns, there's tonne's of olde magicke and persuits alchemical. The historical range of "Against the Day" covers the early development of the Golden Dawn. This will tie this book much more tightly to the occult elements in "Gravity's Rainbow". "ATD" just might be "The Big One".