AtD: Lew,a moral center

[David Morris]

On Thu, Feb 23, 2012 at 3:06 PM, Mark Kohut <markekohut at yahoo.com> wrote:
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> David Morris writes:
> You both have a much better recollection of the details, but at a very basic level Pynchon has his twisted sisters (starting w/ VL, for me) making choices that aren't explained much by personal histories.  I think his women (maybe all his characters) are constructs in his take on power dynamics, and as such we don't really feel their motives: they are too abstracted/theoretical.
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> David Morris
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> I would largely agree (although I'm sure with differences if we went through details) but THIS---"constructs in his take on power dynamics"--- is just what  giving AtD a moral reading is, i say...
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Right.  But his moral readings are best in GR where they are most
abstract, psychedelically multi-layered, and **unresolved**.  GR (for
me) is about the deep nature of human consciousness.  Politics and
power aren't the real issues, just symptoms.  Also, (like I think
Terrance asserted quite a while ago) there is a deep level of
religious "concern" (my term) in GR:  Is reality full of real or
imagined messages from some higher creation.  Some call this GR's
Gnossis.

David Morris