Pynchon defines Thanatoids?

[Gavin Findlay]

Thanks, I'm looking forward to be a part of this.

Alas I am away from home and email for a few days now, so just a quick  
follow up - it strikes me with the Thanatoids that they perform the  
role described in ATD such as with respect to VL's Frenesi, a  
Preterite who has strayed from the trail and is in dire need of  
redemption. But the limbo the Thanatoids suffer reflects their own  
part in their undoing, some more honorable than others but their place  
determined by their own actions (cf Dante?) - the Tube being both a  
primary carrier and a reflection of the ways they failed?

On 02/03/2010, at 11:27 PM, Mark Kohut wrote:

> welcome. You are in for some great conversation, and have even  
> started one.
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> maybe these dead are more honorably dead than the Thanatoids?
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> --- On Tue, 3/2/10, Gavin Findlay <gavinf at homemail.com.au> wrote:
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>> 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
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>> 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
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>> PS and yes, ATD is blowing my tiny little mind
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