Accounts secular and karmic

[Monte Davis]

Or at the next sin down the road, Hester & Dimmesdale's sin vs.
Chillingworth's. 

 

From: owner-pynchon-l at waste.org [mailto:owner-pynchon-l at waste.org] On Behalf
Of alice wellintown
Sent: Sunday, April 14, 2013 1:45 PM
To: pynchon -l
Subject: Re: Accounts secular and karmic

 

The difference is clearly defined in several Pynchon essays,  and is, of
course, a major theme in all of his novels. Although some readers will never
quite get it because they refuse to accept the author's position, even when
he spells it out for them in plain words,  a good place to start is with
Pynchon's essay on Sloth. 

In the essay the author examines Melville's Bartleby and explains that the
scrivener's sin against the economy was secular, but the sin of the lawyer
against Bartleby, even if the soul is little more than a few blades of grass
in the Tombs, is Karmic. 

 

 

On Sun, Apr 14, 2013 at 12:30 PM, <bandwraith at aol.com> wrote:

What's the difference, I'd like to know?

 

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