Repost: "The Big One"

[robinlandseadel at comcast.net]

          Paul Mackin:
          The passage is a wonderful one but we must not  forget that creative 
          writers often need to make things sound more sinister than in reality 
          they are.

Can't get much more sinister in a Tarot reading than being crossed by a Tower card.

It means your whole world is about to fly apart.

If Pynchon is making this passage as sinister as possible than maybe 
he believes that Weissman's passage into the Council on Foriegn Affairs 
or NASA is sinister?

There's always surface readings folks, take the guy at his word. . . .