rubrics (I like that word), wrecking crews and hugfests

[Mark Kohut]

Ray Easton asks:

> What duality? 
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> The presence of 'X' within a satire of 'X' is not itself
> evidence of 
> duality.  How would one go about satirizing 'X'
> without in the process 
> informing one's work with 'X'?
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> 
> Replace the 'X' in the above with "occult", with
> "conspiracy theory", or 
> with whichever is your own personal favorite of Pynchon's
> hobby-horses.
> 
> 
> Ray


The duality, basically, is how much he embraces what he also satirizes. How much he believes in some/any "occult' understandings yet how foolish he finds them given the often-savage satire. 

Like John, and others, I always think of it re the Tarot in GR, say....and much else, especially in Against the Day, that jam-packed book. 

Or, from another perspective, P hisself has dissed such either-or, excluded middle thinking so.....................
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