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

[Carvill, John]

<< That Pynchon employs the Tarot to give structure to GR, I do not think 
it follows from this fact that Pynchon takes the occult seriously.  Are 
we similarly to conclude that Joyce "believes in" Greek mythology? >>

Well, that's why I said I'd sometimes 'wondered' whether (or to what extent) Pynchon takes all that stuff seriously.

A bit like the way people wondered how seriously Saul Bellow took all that theosophy stuff he sprinkled through 'Humboldt's Gift'. IN Bellow's case, of course, people assumed he was just taking the piss, when in fact he was, apparently, dead serious. (Now, if that doesn't wake malignD up out of whatever coffin he sleeps through the daytime in, I don't know what will....)