ATD and ghosts/thanatoids

[Mark Kohut]

John's words: 
Which leads me, once again, to think this, too, is part of TRP's satiric comedies....

Re: revenge on the universe or wishful thinking [DM], it is a very interesting pov considering TRPs use of inevitable psychic revenge---return of the repressed, for example--in GR and elsewhere. Cf. The Trespassers from the future in AtD?? [per J. Tracey, maybe?]

A...and when i read articles on how even if we destroy ourselves on this earth, what is left will inevitably 'adjust' to what is left....even cosmically,....................ultimate karmic adjustment is entropy, no?

I think, with John [if I have him right], the concept is as broad as most astrology readings, say.

Cf. early in ATD when Lew is told there is no connection between penance and justice [I paraphrase]....THIS seems more like Pynchon's vision not
his Karmic adjustment jokes....







--- On Tue, 3/9/10, John Bailey <sundayjb at gmail.com> wrote:

> From: John Bailey <sundayjb at gmail.com>
> Subject: Re: ATD and ghosts/thanatoids
> To: "Gavin Findlay" <gavinf at homemail.com.au>
> Cc: pynchon-l at waste.org
> Date: Tuesday, March 9, 2010, 2:24 AM
> 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
> >
>