IV translation: spades

[alice wellintown]

> Why must we have faith in him, what does that mean.  Why do you think that
> Pynchon presumes we take a moral high ground, on anything.  Is that a faith
> he has in us?  I would want to have faith he has a little more faith in us
> than that.

We have faith in him because he performs magic; we pay for and read
the books to see magic. When he shows us that Andy Kaufman is up his
sleeve doing Elvis impersoninations we now know that the moon landing
is not as fake as Andy's faked death. But only if we believe Andy's up
Pynchon's sleeve. When Pynchon shows us that Andy's not or is no
longer up his sleeve, we no longer believe They put a man on the moon.
Pynchon has faith in his magic; he believes he can make us believe
because we read his books, our reading is faith and we must have it to
experience the magic Pynchon performs, but our faith makes us
vulnerable to his magic, his fraud, his masquerade. We giggle all the
way to the gallows.