Pynchon striking out the Divine

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Do you really think that Pynchon considers whether his writing has practical application for the young reader?  Or wirtes to convey moral instruction to anyone of any age?

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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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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