afterthought per Ray and Richard

[Robert Mahnke]

I know I'm travelling over well-trod ground here, but if The Crying of
Lot 49 is trying to tell us anything -- and it is -- isn't it that
people need to create elaborate constructs to explain the messy,
complicated reality we live in, but that we can't get outside them to
discover whether they're true?  Behind the hieroglyphic streets there
would either be a transcendent meaning, or only the earth, but the
book always ends before we find out which.

On 11/27/09, Carvill, John <john.carvill at sap.com> wrote:
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> Sounds reasonable to me. I just get the feeling that pynchon does take an equivocal view of some supernatural/occult matters. I guess it's yet another instance of 'ambiguity', a subject which was disputed here not long ago, as in 'do pynchon's texts suggest that he is ambivalent about technology'.
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