afterthought per Ray and Richard

[Mark Kohut]

No matter the ovrall 'answer', I think the anarchist dance miracle
is a positive good thing, yes? 

So, I start, and often end, there, speaking for myself. 

--- On Mon, 11/30/09, Robert Mahnke <rpmahnke at gmail.com> wrote:

> From: Robert Mahnke <rpmahnke at gmail.com>
> Subject: Re: afterthought per Ray and Richard
> To: "Carvill, John" <john.carvill at sap.com>
> Cc: "Ray Easton" <kraimie at kraimie.net>, "pynchon -l" <pynchon-l at waste.org>
> Date: Monday, November 30, 2009, 4:29 PM
> 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:
> >
> > 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'.
> >
>