why work so hard to set up a joak?

[Monte Davis]

That's all you got? 

 

Our resident close reader, with all the critical chops, sez: "these things
are in the books because he puts all sorts of things in the books"..?

 

Try again, dear.

 

From: owner-pynchon-l at waste.org [mailto:owner-pynchon-l at waste.org] On Behalf
Of alice wellintown
Sent: Wednesday, June 12, 2013 11:55 PM
To: pynchon -l
Subject: why work so hard to set up a joak?

 

Why not? Pynchon has been stuffing his books with whatever he can cram into
them from the get-go. It's his MO.  He likes stuffing science in and
religion in and history and psychology and....that's what he does. 

 

 

Tell me: is it really plausible that all this (and a metric buttload more)
is there as nothing more than bait? As examples of how people get drawn to
the Dark Side? If these are just the snares that lead sinners into doomed
congress with science and technology, he's sure putting a lot of work into
them, isn't he? 

 

 

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