Repost: "The Big One"

[Paul Mackin]

Michael Bailey wrote:
> On 7/10/08, robinlandseadel at comcast.net <robinlandseadel at comcast.net> wrote:
>   
>>      David Payne:
>>      Hold on -- can you expound on what you mean by "[I] would
>>
>>      point to Weissmann's tarot as the narrator's true feelings on
>>      the subject"?
>>     
>
>
> very contrarian view steals over me now & again...
> that Pynchon is actually rooting for the Weissmann camp...
> that he's *glad* we shall have to look "high, not low" for him (W, that is)
>
> this possibility percolates nicely through all my readings and makes
> them  sinister...
>
> then again, this stems from a paranoia I learned
> (or at least honed) at the hands or under the arch of GR
>
>
>   

Perhaps the tarot passage is just one more iteration of the End of 
Romanticism. 

In which  novel's most fabulous character aims himself (his lover 
actually but that's only a detail) for the Stars, but ends up in a 
Boring Old Board Room.

Remember who the favorite poet was.

I recommend reading as little morality  into Pynchon as humanly possible.

I prefer to seek out the SINISTER . . . .