Pynchon on his characters

[Dave Monroe]

On Sun, May 17, 2009 at 2:00 PM, Keith <keithsz at mac.com> wrote:

> Yeah, I, too, lean towards the Joplin side of that argument. When Raquel and
> I were in seminary school together we used to go round and round about the
> Book of Revelation and whether or not this or that was Authorial intent or
> was about Heilsgeschichte or drug induced imagery or code for current events
> designed to get past Them for the sake of Us. Pick a lens any lens, and the
> whole damned thing coughs up evidence galore to support whichever. It's all
> part of the fun, but when one gets all literal about it, it becomes our
> favorite condition, the proverbial paranoia.

A tightrope walk which Pynchon generally performs with aplomb ...