Pynchon knows this, I say. Sorta always known.

[Rev'd Seventy-Six]

Alice tends to anthropomorphize science as a megalithic, empiricist egoiost
incapable of empathy.

She also has a tendency to characterize science as being in intractable
opposition to matters of the soul and/or numinous world.  A peculiarly
western conceit.

She knows better, I suspect.
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