AMBOPEDIA

[Mike Weaver]

Someone very close to me has a BPD, and earlier in the week I was at a 
carers' support group, where I realised the depth and range of the 
disorder (and how sorted my friend is 90% of the time). My feeling is 
that Pynchon was playing with the name rather than anything deeper. 
(Which is, maybe, one way of summing up the criticisms of the 
disappointed among us). Having temporarily put the book aside at p350 
I'm not willing to commit, still on the borderline I suppose.

Alternatively is there any mileage in mapping the dominant psychology of 
the US as a nation onto the range of symptoms that make up BPD?

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Pynchon-l / http://www.waste.org/mail/?list=pynchon-l