VL-IV: Chap 10 - Krishna

[kelber at mindspring.com]

My understanding is that you were saying that Pynchon himself is religious.  If I misunderstood, I apologize.  He seems to feel some kinship with nature-as-spirituality.  ATD is full of references to inanimate things (rock formations, ice) being living, moral creatures.  But the conspiracies that Oedipa and Slothrop are worried about are manmade in origin - nothing universal about them.  The Quaternionists might believe in God but that doesn't mean that Pynchon agrees with them.

Laura

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

>
>COL49:  Oedipa sees...  patterns?  conspiracy?  Is it all in her head?
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>GR:  Slothrop is paranoid.  Is he crazy?  Is he the Rocketman?  That
>map of London.  Is Slothrop prescient?
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>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?
>>
>> -----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).
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