ATD and ghosts/thanatoids

[John Bailey]

Vineland, Inherent Vice and now AtD have been very free 'n' easy with
this concept of karmic adjustment. Isn't it a bit like saying
'everything'll sort itself out?' Is it an older writer losing the
fighting flame that fuelled GR? Or is it an enduring legacy of the 60s
(I wasn't there and I remember that).

Then again, despite a strong affinity for various Eastern
philosophies, I've always felt the idea of karma was just a way of
projecting your own revenge instincts onto the universe at large.

On Tue, Mar 9, 2010 at 6:04 PM, Gavin Findlay <gavinf at homemail.com.au> wrote:
> Hi people
>
> Have now finished ATD and near the end, where it is very ambiguous as to
> what world the protagonists are in, Lew Basnight encounters (p1057 Cape
> hardback) what is self-evidently a party of what will in Vineland be called
> Thanatoids, at Carefree Crescent. They are even presided by someone called
> Virgil and discuss the topic of karmic adjustment.
>
> I have some rereading of other works to do obviously to more fully
> understand but that will be a pleasure.
>
> Bought my copy of Inherent Vice while travelling on the weekend, adding to
> the pleasure.
>
> tonebuddha
>