Pynchon defines Thanatoids?

[Mark Kohut]

welcome. You are in for some great conversation, and have even started one.

maybe these dead are more honorably dead than the Thanatoids?

--- On Tue, 3/2/10, Gavin Findlay <gavinf at homemail.com.au> wrote:

> From: Gavin Findlay <gavinf at homemail.com.au>
> Subject: Pynchon defines Thanatoids?
> To: pynchon-l at waste.org
> Date: Tuesday, March 2, 2010, 5:54 AM
> Hi all
> 
> I have been a fan of TRP for years but only recently
> discovered the wikis and this list. The Vineland wiki
> contains some thoughts on who or what the Thanatoids really
> are, and such discussion I have seen focusses their context
> in Vineland with respect to The Tube and the 60s. None of
> the discussion seems very certain or conclusive. I think TRP
> himself has since provided us the answer. I am nearly
> finished Against The Day and discovered this on page 922 of
> the Jonathan Cape hardback edition:  "...but our dead
> never stopped belonging to us, they haunt us every day,
> don't you see, and we got to stay true, they wouldn't
> forgive us if we wandered off the trail".
> 
> It all makes sense now.
> 
> tonebuddha
> 
> PS and yes, ATD is blowing my tiny little mind
>