Re: IVIV (1) "Uphill and invisible… p4

[Robin Landseadel]

On Aug 28, 2009, at 9:34 AM, rich wrote:

> another one of Pynchon's great insight into the animate/inanimate  
> dispensation
>
> Pynchon's work imbues a consciousness to everything under the sun--not
> just humans but animals, storms, molecules, and yes, steel and
> automobiles
> humans aren't the most important thing in Pynchon's world and
> therefore a possible insight into why some think his characterizations
> of people rather thin--his universe is just too wide (and expansive)
> stones and wind, and lightning, and rats, and inanimate ducks are  
> all equal
> IV is very human-centric if u will and instances of that expansive
> weltanschauung like this passage are those little nuggets I find most
> appealing
>
> rich

Kinda pantheist if you ask me.