Saunders on TRP

[David Morris]

"...and now, in the Zone, later in the day he became a crossroad, after a
heavy rain he doesn't recall, Slothrop sees a very thick rainbow here, a
stout rainbow cock driven down out of the pubic clouds into Earth, green
wet valleyed Earth, and his chest fills and he stands crying, not a thing
in his head, just feeling natural..." Thomas Pynchon, *Gravity's Rainbow*, p.
626

*http://tinyurl.com/oev5468 <http://tinyurl.com/oev5468>*
*Read pages 147 & 148*

*Of course interpretations are meant to vary.*


On Wed, Mar 26, 2014 at 7:45 AM, Mike Weaver <mike.weaver at zen.co.uk> wrote:

> Gotta disagree with this very strongly. I think P challenges the validity
> of the 'be here now' mentality with his notion of temporal bandwidth.
> Slothrop's dissolution (Tempbdwth = 0)is the opposite of enlightenment.
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> David Morris <fqmorris at gmail.com> wrote :
> The excluded middle and the middle way are so obviously aligned. Paradox
> is Pynchon and Zen. Slothrop found the Tao and his dissolving away is a
> common feat of enlightened masters.  Pynchon made Slothrop into a Buddha.
> Deal with it.
> > David MorrisOn Tuesday, March 25, 2014, Markekohut
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