Also re blurb for WARLOCK

[Mark Kohut]

We have, at Cissell's recent quiet urging, and at other times, speculated on
Pynchon's developmental relation to organized (and non-organized) religions.

What about his movement of mind re place? Grew up parochially on LI
during the war and narrow 50's? No indication he travelled much when
young, is there?  Enrolled
in an Eastern college........

Do we think he joined the Navy not only to feel the real world (not
the bookish world)
and its people, esp maybe the populist democracy of American sailors?

But also to 'see the world' as recruitment pitches are always saying?

Warlock, after that broadening experience, struck TRP and Farina enough to
have them form a 'mini-cult".  TRP praises it for setting up the
fragility of 'law & order', that is civilization. A 'mythic' Western,
so to speak---that shows 'abysses" clearly. I can bloviate
about TRPs entree into such as The White Goddess (surely to cmd) and
The Golden Bough, etc.

But another passing thought is he loved it because The West, the
American West. Which we
know came to matter a lot to him, his vision. Maybe not until Against
the Day did he pay
full on the page homage to Warlock's West?

Discuss.
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