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

[Matthew Cissell]

Far more? If the dead are memories making trouble, then the living are dreams hurling questions back at the dead across the speechless aeons of now. Seems like art, religion and science (that late comer) are the ways we document our preoccupation with that life-death dance through space-time.
But then, wuhdoo I know?
Otis


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From: barbie gaze <barbiegaze at gmail.com>
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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.