Back to AtD Cyprian again

[Mark Kohut]

p. 939 "only some form of madness would take anyone east, right now. into the jaws
of what's almost certainly on the move out there." 
What is he alluding to? the Repressed returning? War?, the Building-up? The Force of They?
 
Lower down on 939:
"Cyprian had begun to 'relax into his fate' " 
What means this? Nietzsche is one who is famous for the concept of accepting--loving, embracing-- one's fate. Amor Fati. 
Nabokov is another, along with some ancient Greek dramatists and 
This bracketed phrase in AtD does not show up except in Pynchon (and one unknown writer)'s allusion. 
Does Pynchon even give Nietzsche's concept a laid-back framing? Wiki calls Cyprian's response Buddhist.
 
Has Cyprian gone beyond (society's) good and evil Nietzsche-like. Is that where Buddhism lies? 
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