Pynchon striking out the Divine

[David Morris]

I guess you mean a square grid (but it's not square, except in flattened
maps) isn't a natural (?) fit for a roundish object.

The grid could be triangular, but to what end?  It isn't a net to restrain
the planet.  It is simply topography, a way to measure, describe.  How that
measurement is used is the issue in MD.

On Tuesday, June 4, 2013, Bekah wrote:

> I think perhaps the whole large idea of trying to put a grid on a sphere
> implies that science may be somewhat limited.
>
> Bekah
>
> On Jun 4, 2013, at 2:31 PM, Lemuel Underwing <luunderwing at gmail.com<javascript:;>>
> wrote:
>
> > 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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