Against the Day after Inherent Vice again

[Mark Kohut]

I read it as the Grand Cohen introducing Lew to an alternative explanation of why things are the way they are--human-condition-wise. (an alternative to the usual Original-Sin explanation)

"An intrusion from somewhere else," to abolish our earlier condition of being "law abiding and clean."

"introducing time into a timeless world"   

Instituting History.

One way of looking at it might be the substitution of the Symbolic Order for the Real.

But of course this is mere elaboration--what we're essentially seeing is the old Pyncher doing his paraoia schtick. 

P

Yeah, sounds right but with Pynchon's few types of ambiguity, this explanation could be just another way of 
articulating Original Sin......
 
I.E. the Garden of Eden was the timeless world---'no death'---then Time, death, was introduced after the 
original sin...........
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