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

[Bled Welder]

Love your moniker, but I can't get Purple Haze out of my mind when I see you.  Great song, but I don't like Jimi.  That he didn't find somebody with a voice who could sing to sing his songs in his place is an absurdity and tragedy unparalleled.
Shocker--I read V., actually one of those books you read the first two hundred pages of three times, and never get any further, like Ada or Ardor or Ulysses, when I was the same age that the man wrote it, and never even noticed the things you mentioned.  Obviously you can explain away MandD because of the context of the actual history, and yes Pynchon is fond of his geometric divisions, but you might think he would pass up such an obvious and juicy one as that infernal line?  Arcing missiles demarcating the victorious and the destroyed, but an imaginary line demarcating the North and the wasteland that is the South?
The science and math of the man's writing doesn't outway his religious fetishes?  Who around here can read and understands the occasional math formula he tosses into his texts?  Do they immitate something metaphysical?

Date: Mon, 5 Mar 2012 06:22:16 -0500
Subject: Re: P's Religion Or Why Take Revenge on Revenge Tragedy: The Living & the Dead ...an Interdependent Community
From: barbiegaze at gmail.com
To: pynchon-l at waste.org

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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