IVIV (2) Hope

[alice wellintown]

John Carvill wrote:
>
>>I know we argued
>> over it at length and could never quite agree about the tone. The fact
>> that Pynchon says that we are allowed only *a moment*  to swear that
>> we will not betray our most sacred and human bond, does not support
>> the sentimental reading that Tore advanced.
>
> Typical 'ask Alice' logic, that. *Why* is a moment not enough to
> swear, or to form a conviction, or to make a resolution? A moment is a
> long time in the human heart.


Certainly, but that's not what the sentence says. The sentence says
that the moment is brief, fleeting, slipping away. Responding to
Tore's claim that Larry's promo work for the junkie family is a
sentimental moment akin to the sentimental moment at the end of this
essay, I expalined that the ending of the essay is no more sentimental
than the scene ort plot line in the novel.  So the evidence supports
my reading and not Tore's. Like that logic?