V-2nd, Chap 7

[alice wellintown]

The witches and devils are ironic figures, full of ambiguity, invested
with paradox. We find them leaning over the door to the Roman and
Romantic catholic and Catholic Cathedrals. We find them on trial,
their goats, their Hunchbacks and Priests in Romances here and abroad.
 And, of course, Pynchon's model is Hawthorne. Pearl is a witch and so
is Matthew Maule. Check out the Maypole of Marrymount...etc.


 I've no real problem with the notion that the author's mind was
opened by a witch'd brew ha ha .., but I find this "fact" fairly
obvious and unintersting.