Pynchon striking out the Divine

[Lemuel Underwing]

I reckon you've only read folks from the past one hundred years. Moral
Instruction takes on something *different *with Doc. Johnson.
Sorry to offend your Holiness of the Digressive List.


On Tue, Jun 4, 2013 at 6:58 PM, alice wellintown
<alicewellintown at gmail.com>wrote:

>
> 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...?
>>
>>
>>
>>
>> -----Original Message-----
>> From: Lemuel Underwing <luunderwing at gmail.com>
>> To: “pynchon-l at waste.or
>> g“ <pynchon-l at waste.org>
>> Sent: Tue, Jun 4, 2013 5:31 pm
>> Subject: Pynchon striking out the Divine
>>
>>  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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