BEER Ch. 7, part 2: point of DeepArcher

[Mark Kohut]

So, maybe, another presentation of how transient ANY anarchic utopia IS? 
Or, as you and I Monte, while others leaned certain ways toward or away, went back and forth on
P's possible presentation of the originality of an "original sin" , so to paraphrase and restate cryptically.
You brought up the Pamplas line from GR and I--then--was holding out for P locating some kind of
newly defined original sin within history.
 
Here, perhaps as in Inherent Vice (and perhaps with lines like the Pampas line from GR), P more clearly
"says"---such evil always was and will be? As with the violent play in CofL49 as History?



On Monday, October 28, 2013 7:03 PM, Monte Davis <montedavis at verizon.net> wrote:
  
MK> I cannot get many less positive thoughts about DeepArcher out of my head...that word "abyss'...
 
For sure: few if any of Mr. Pynchon’s Wild Rides lack that “sense of something not necessarily pleasant just about to happen.” But I do think that DeepArcher’s “historylessness,” and the less emphasized fact that its users – not Justin and Lucas – are creating much of what Maxine sees, give it some of the positive valence of his transient anarchist utopias, too.
 
I repeat, transient. DeepArcher will be commercially colonized before the book’s year is out, and those still committed to its original intent forced to go mobile. The question that drives the plot, after all, is not some Stanford undergrads’
 
“What cool and revolutionary things can you do with transistors and HTML and fiber optics and virtual communities?”
 
But, quite explicitly, Maxine’s “Who’s putting money into / talking it out of these Internet companies, and why?”
 
I’d never expect that kind of question, in Pynchon, to yield upbeat answers.
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