pynchon and science

[alice wellintown]

There's plenty of competition.

With Bleeding on the way, I imagine folks will be reading that piece on
Stone Junction, on Warlock, Sloth, 1984, Luddite....

The abuse of technic by those who seek to control populations, the
resistance to it.





On Tuesday, June 18, 2013, wrote:

> Absent in this "what does P think about science" argument (which is not
> the main thesis but keeps popping up) -- is an aesthetic reading.  Pynchon
> writes rhapsodically about science.  I'd say better than anyone and better
> than he writes about anything else.  Pynchon, I think, loves science,
> particularly vis-a-vis theology, philosophy, superstition, power, money,
> etc., and bemoans the way it is put to use by all that I have just listed.
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