VL-IV: Chap 10 - Krishna

[David Morris]

COL49:  Oedipa sees...  patterns?  conspiracy?  Is it all in her head?

GR:  Slothrop is paranoid.  Is he crazy?  Is he the Rocketman?  That
map of London.  Is Slothrop prescient?

AtD: "They believe-the Quaternionists do-that Hamilton didn't so much
figure the system out as receive it from somewhere beyond? Sort of
like Mormons only different."

David Morris

On Tue, Feb 17, 2009 at 8:35 PM,  <kelber at mindspring.com> wrote:
> Examples?
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>>From: David Morris <fqmorris at gmail.com>
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>>One of Pynchon's over-arching explorations is that of origins of
>>order/patterns/meaning in the universe.  Are they inherent (existent
>>apart from man, and "discovered" or "revealed"), or are they invented?
>> Or both?  This is very much a religious question, and thus, I think,
>>ALL of Pynchon's novels are steeped in religious exploration.
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>>David Morris
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>>On Tue, Feb 17, 2009 at 4:49 PM,  <kelber at mindspring.com> wrote:
>>> I have to confess to a total mental block towards anything remotely religious or spiritual.  Still, the majority of TRP's themes don't fall into these categories, which explains why I'm such a Pynchon fan(atic).
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