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[Tore Rye Andersen]

Mark:
 
> I do think AtD tries to show the roots of how WE created the System, 
> don't you?... The Whole World-System since the late 1800s?
 
Absolutely - although I would also extend this ambition to GR and M&D.
I've written a couple-three times on this list of Pynchon's Big Three
as some sort of loose historical trilogy, and I think that put together 
those three novels do just that: Show the roots of how WE created the
System, as you put it; how we immersed ourselves in the technology we
brought into being, and how this immersion, this willing abnegation of 
control to external forces (imagined or not), sped us along on our 
plunge into Modernity (as depicted on the paperback cover of AtD).
 
If I had to sum up the major theme of GR, M&D and AtD in one word 
(a daunting task, a stupid task, even) it would be: IMMACHINATION 
(see e.g. GR 297, 318, 728). 
 
How's *that* for reduction of complexity!?

  		 	   		  
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