V-2nd, Chap 7

[Robin Landseadel]

On Sep 26, 2010, at 10:32 AM, alice wellintown wrote:

> 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 ..,

"ha ha' my ass.

> but I find this "fact" fairly
> obvious and unintersting.


And I find it to be the motherload of all threads within Pynchon's  
books, seeing as he's more than willing to fill his audience in on  
many of the pertinent details. That sort of attention to the small  
detail is not the work of a disinterested party.