What is Thomas Pynchon telling us?

[Heikki Raudaskoski]

On Wed, 4 Jun 2008, Paul Mackin wrote:
> I haven't read Hendin but wouldn't just about anybody regard Pynchon as
> a gloomy determinist.
>
>  Despite mankind's multitudinous schemes at avoidance, many of them
> insane, some less so, the Rocket will fall and we are all doomed.
>
> That's what GR tells us.
>
> Most authors try to offer a way out.  Usually in the last chapter. It's
> the only way you can get your book published.
>
> P refused to buckle under.


To a large extent, I agree. A "non serviam" for the post-WWII world.

But I'd say the novel will not serve modishly, arrogantly desperate
neo-Spenglerians, either. One cannot totally dispel that delta-T.


Heikki