Vormance, Mycelium, "The Nature of Expeditions" and [Mycelial] Colonization

[Bled Welder]

Who knew this thing would be so damned apropos for me?  I had no idea what this novel was about going into it three weeks ago.  I had read everything through MandD in my early 20s, and retained enough I suppose to be interested in riding along with you Chums in a read of AtD.  Then I gave in to the demands this book has of reading it carefully, highlighted by my trying to recall the book's first encounter with Lew yesterday, woefully weak remembrance of things just past.  And behold, for anyone who might recall what I've been documenting the last coupla weeks:
Pg. 131 "The Transnoctial Discussion Group...
'We learned once how to break horses and ride them for long distances, with oceangoing ships we left flat surfaces and went into Reimann space, we crossed solid land and deep seas, and colonized what we found,' said Dr. Vormance.  'Now we have taken the first few wingbeats of what will allow us to begin colonizing the sky.  Somehwhere in it, God Dwells in His heavenly City.  How far into that unmapped wilderness shall we journey before we find Him?  Will He withdraw before our advance, continue to withdraw into the Infinite?  Will He send back to us divine Agents, to help, to deceive, to turn us away?  Will we leave settlements inthe Sky, along our invasion routes, or will we choose to be wanderers, striking camp each morning, content with nothing more than Zion?  And what of colonizing additional dimensions beyond the third?  Colonize Time.  Why not?'
'Because, sir,' objected Dr. Templeton Blope, of the University of the Outer Hebrides, '--we are limited to three.'
You gotta love that.
I have not read further than there.  But a few pages earlier it might be noted, as the Inconvenience goes into the interior of the world, pg. 115, "...and mushrooms unknown to the fungologists of the surface world, who had once journeyed regularly hither in high expectation of discovering new species with new properties of visionary enhancement..."
Is Pynchon, too, a psilo-overman?







 		 	   		  
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