Pynchon striking out the Divine

[Lemuel Underwing]

Take the title to mean what you want; I speak of the way P. seems to
editorialize what may have been more explicitly Religious (Gnostic?) themes
in his work. Namely M&D where the editorializing takes on an explicit garb
of  D--l and G-d, for Mason's Deist speculation there is Dixon to counter,
and for Dixon's Quaker revelations there is Mason to counter. There are
many overt Biblical Allusions, and lengthy diatribes supposedly for the
Moral Instruction of the readers.

So, what kind of Moral Instruction *does *P. either as Cherrycoke or the
war-sprung narrator in GR have to offer? I can't imagine it being of much
practical application to the young reader except in the sense that it is a
Gnostic Secret, a code-word, passed down from Instructor to Initiate...?
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