Back to AtD. 'something malevolent' p. 971

[alice wellintown]

Itz typical of Pynchon's hysterical historical knotting in twos, and
his double downs, and his doing the dozens on the living and the dead.

He's piled it high now (see the wonderful review by Leonard on the
late piling on in M&D here:
Mason & Dixon Review - The Nation,   John Leonard,   12 May 1997:
65-58   . . .More than 700 pages later, when this splendid
eighteenth-century beast of a book seems to have hunkered down for a
dying fall of grace notes—
http://www.thomaspynchon.com/mason-dixon/reviews/leonard.html

Since it was there before the terrain, and is evil in matter, itz gnostic.

So, back to that essay....is the Earth denied Grace? Is she
unredeamable? Such logical and enlightened views, such binary
materialism....is anathema to Pynchon's orphic song. This evil need
not feast on Earth and shit her out in innert wastes. But it is not
gnosis, knowledge, enlightenment that will save her and us, but Grace.



> both remembered feeling the presence of a conscious and
> searching force which was not the storm, nor the
> winter, nor the promise of more of the same for who knew how long....but
> something else, something malevolent and much
> older than the terrain or any race that might have passed in unthinking
> pilgrimage across it, something which swallowed whole
> and shit into oblivion whatever came in range of its hunger."
>
> Gimme 25 0r 250 words.
>
> Is this the Death Wish from Life Against Death, Freud, whomever, in the
> world---contra Bullock? The Return of the Deepest Repressed that
> makes War---contra Bullock ? The inherent vice of human nature--something
> malevolent?
>
> Or, of course, some combo, all or something else...