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

[Mark Kohut]

Theosophy is a good enough example within Pynchon as well....bits in GR, but especially in Against the Day we can ask how P himself seems to view Theosophy?...

I would argue the 'duality' thus: TRP likes most of the occult ways of trying to get us out of the linear mental structure of scientific cause-effect YETdoes not himself necessarily like many "occult" conceptual options he puts in his works. Some, though? 

--- On Wed, 11/25/09, Carvill, John <john.carvill at sap.com> wrote:

> From: Carvill, John <john.carvill at sap.com>
> Subject: RE: rubrics (I like that word), wrecking crews and hugfests
> To: "Ray Easton" <kraimie at kraimie.net>, "pynchon -l" <pynchon-l at waste.org>
> Date: Wednesday, November 25, 2009, 9:34 AM
> << 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....)
> 
> 
>