rubrics (I like that word), wrecking crews and hugfests

[David Morris]

On Mon, Nov 30, 2009 at 11:09 PM, Michael Bailey
<michael.lee.bailey at gmail.com> wrote:
> David Morris  wrote:
>> I think Pynchon takes occultisms (not to mention Lemuria or hollow earths) about as seriously as he takes zombies.
>
> which is to say, sees parallels between the description of the obviously fake phenomenon and one or more objectively verifiable phenomena
>
> thinks it worth mentioning several such items, and elaborating on the correspondences frequently and to good dramatic effect

Right.  Thinks about, not Believes.