P's Religion Or Why Take Revenge on Revenge Tragedy: The Living & the Dead ...an Interdependent Community

[barbie gaze]

That V. opens on Christmas Eve, the day before the Virgin gave Birth to
Christ,  in a Sailor's Grave and with a Parody of Dante's Divine Comedy
(like Joyce's parody of the Mass in the opening of Ulysses), and with a
character named Profane, a half Jewish half Catholic sailor, who will soon
team up on a quest for the Virgin-Inanimate (Adams's Dynamo) and head into
a Parish under the Street & Co. and to Malta all suggest a preoccupation
with inter-communication of the living&dead (Wasteland). This
preoccupation continues in all the major works. It's excellent material to
work with, though some readers are turned off by its obscure and recondite
densities, it is far more essential to Pynchon than Entropy or anything
else scientific.
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