pynchon-l-digest V2 #6648

[jbor at bigpond.com]

... only to say, absolutely. Dixon turns the slaveholder's weapon  
against him in M&D, fulfilling, ironically, and in the most simplest  
and explicit terms, the Hammurabian code.


On 05/02/2009, at 7:00 PM, pynchon-l-digest wrote:

>>>
>>>   I think the statement "Guns, like rockets KILL everywhere
>>> in Pynchon's fiction. Killing is BAD." is overstated. Well, at  
>>> least a teency bit overstated. I too see a strong Buddhist/ 
>>> Pythagorean/Jesus/Tolstoyan leaning of Pynchon's thinking, but he  
>>> is not absolutist about the issue in my reading. The world is full  
>>> of dangerous violent organizations, states and individuals and  
>>> there is no indication that P condemns armed resistance to  
>>> injustice or domination outright,  though he often seems to show  
>>> its ineffectualness, and negative consequences.
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