Against the Day after Inherent Vice again

[Paul Mackin]

On 2/20/2012 8:01 AM, Mark Kohut wrote:
> 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...........
>
>
Yep, substitution of an occult answer for the Judeo-Christian one, for 
why the world is f___ed up, including that we die.

P


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