VL-IV: Chap 10 - Krishna

[David Morris]

Yes, it's all a part of the same thing.  Human perception, psychology,
philosophy.  Pynchon's playground.  You are very resistant to the word
"religious," but whether one believes in a creator or not, the
questions regarding reality and perception are still very poignant,
and everywhere in Pynchon's books.

David Morris

On Wed, Feb 18, 2009 at 9:24 AM,  <kelber at mindspring.com> wrote:
> 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?
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> Laura
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>>From: David Morris <fqmorris at gmail.com>
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>>No, I never said Pynchon was religious.
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>>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."
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>>David Morris
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