Pynchon striking out the Divine

[alice wellintown]

Who cares what P thinks? Moral instruction? Shit. Get real.
On Tuesday, June 4, 2013, wrote:

> 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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