Pynchon's real Problem

[alice wellintown]

"When the power of love overcomes the love of power, the world will know peace.”

Can't remember who said this, maybe it was Bob Dylan's grandmother,
but it seems the kind of idea that a wondering scholar might gypsy
about and take seriously. Anyways, Love in the Western World, an early
P interest, and a fine and controversial book that explores some of
the "problems" we've put on the table here, is certainly a key to
reading Pynchon and American Literature. The American male, as Pynchon
claims, remains a boy. Well, the American hero does. And then, there
is Henry James. Portrait of an "American" lady? And that dog is
reading wha?