Goodbye for now, P-list

[Robin Landseadel]

Too bad your leaving on such a sad and resigned note. I do sense that  
this review

http://theamericanreader.com/review-thomas-pynchons-bleeding-edge/

  is among the most Knowing of all the Pynchon reviews of his writing.  
Maybe I'm finally ready to "Grok" what he was writing all along. Along  
with the rather dire impressions you left us in light of David  
Auerbach's extraordinarily preceptive critique, I would add that the  
author also offers up some Taoism, the knowing that one cannot  
ultimately "Know" anything, the world-as-it-is is too great to funnel  
down to just one person's brains, no matter what. There is also the  
valuable concept of Grace, as the author always does, the notion that  
the karma of good acts return just so long as one doesn't spend one's  
time anticipating the karmic payback, but just keeps plugging away  
anyway. This is how good will becomes statistically verifiable good  
works.
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