VL-IV: Chap 10 - Krishna

[Mark Kohut]

When one's fiction is concerned with Man's place in the cosmos, in History--
History saturated with religion always---isn't it by definition religious?

MK



----- Original Message ----
From: "kelber at mindspring.com" <kelber at mindspring.com>
To: pynchon-l at waste.org
Sent: Tuesday, February 17, 2009 9:35:17 PM
Subject: Re: VL-IV: Chap 10 - Krishna

Examples?

-----Original Message-----
>From: David Morris <fqmorris at gmail.com>

>
>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.
>
>David Morris
>
>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).