AtDtDA(28): Invisible Functionaries

[Paul Mackin]

Monte Davis wrote:
>
> Dave Monroe sez:
>
> >> [McLaughlin] This interpretation implies that the
> >> supernatural Other side is not a
> > > holistically unified realm free of the divisions and
> > > distinctions made
> > > and enforced by earthly controllers ... but rather the originary
> > > system of control...
>
> > "Why shouldn't the IG go to séances? They ought to be quite
> > at home with the bureaucracies of the other side." (GR, Pt.
> > III, pp. 410-11)
>
> I can't think of any grimmer, more Gnostic hint that OBA drops -- and 
> there's an equivalent to this somewhere in each of his books: Don't 
> even *think* of transcendence, because it's systems of control all the 
> way up (or down).
>
> Maybe we'll all go fishing… or maybe we're all on the hook for good..
>
This follows from "resurrection of the body," which Pynchon now and then 
refers to and which also happens to be a Christian article of faith.

We won't be just a bunch of so called "souls" floating around sans souci 
in the aether.

Only more of the same old same old.