Very misc related to grace

[Paul Mackin]

Yes. The "Big Ideas" are means to ends--the ends being the inventive 
portrayal of the uncanny, the weird, the divine, the unknown,  not to 
exclude the scary and funny.

He doesn't write philosophical fiction or novels of ideas--he's not 
asking what is the purpose of our existence,  the meaning of life.

He might well have said they fly toward grace or somethin'.  It would 
have sounded too flippant but it wouldn't have changed anything.

So long as it works for him, and it pretty much has.

P



On 11/26/2012 9:10 PM, David Morris wrote:
> Well said, Alice!
>
> Paradox, Koans & Pretzil Logic R Pynchon.  Yin Yang is about all the 
> blends of duality, rarely the opposites alone.  His BIG ideas aren't 
> polemic, they're exploratory.
>
> David Morris
>
> On Monday, November 26, 2012, alice wellintown wrote:
>
>     Pynchon likes to take on the BIG ideas (Entropy, History, Virginity,
>     Gravity...Free Will & Grace) and turn them into pretzil logics or
>     force them into Koans that paradoxically turn out to be ironic book of
>     the dead (allusive parables) dead ends.
>
>     Now, I'm no expert on Grace, or Pynchon, but I suspect that his use of
>     Grace is an example of the propensity described above, and
>     specifically the paraodoxical BIG idea Grace/Free Will.
>
>     Why Pynchon does this or to what end is open to lotz of readings. I
>     suspect that he does it because he is lazy; he re-worksd old material
>     over and over again.
>

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