BE: cracking DeepArcher

[Rev'd Seventy-Six]

It's an egg yet to hatch, in my view. I see more of an author coming
to terms with mortality-- his, perhaps, but moreso Ours. We are a
nation notoriously in denial of death, yet complicit in its worship &
commodification. Maxine's maternal concern for Zig & Otis (among the
many youths populating the novel) is a particular  standout in its
purity, its selflessness. (She works almost wholly on spec.) Her kids'
innocence-- and Lester's, even Windust's --is a Going Concern & part
of the overall point as P. tries to unify the innumerable pairs &
parallels throughout the novel.

If DA is an analogue for Da'ath, if this pinhole projection of the
principle Omnia ab uno / Omnia ad unum, manifested as a tawdry sci-fi
mirror to fragile reality, then Zigotisopolis is her children's aleph,
honoring a city gone to dust. They are as good as god gets, down here
in Malkuth.

That ain't a bad bow.
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Pynchon-l / http://www.waste.org/mail/?list=pynchon-l