VL-IV: Chap 10 - Krishna

[David Morris]

No, I never said Pynchon was religious.

But I think you're taking too much for granted with Oedipa & Slothrop.
 It's never clear whether their paranoias are the result of outside
forces, or produced by a psyche seeing patterns from chaos, NEEDING to
find order, akin to what's been called the "God instinct."

David Morris

On Wed, Feb 18, 2009 at 9:06 AM,  <kelber at mindspring.com> wrote:
> 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.
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> Laura