VL-IV: Chap 10 - Krishna

[kelber at mindspring.com]

NEEDING to find order has also been called Obsessive-Compulsive disorder.  You can say that our brains are structured to seek patterns, but how is that religious?  Doesn't it also give us the need for logic?

Laura

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

>
>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