Odds of another Pynchon novel
Jerome Park
jeromepark3141 at gmail.com
Mon Jun 15 17:56:18 CDT 2015
They are tools that can be discarded. But what are the forces that use
them? Brock has his funding cut, not by anything mysterious, insidious, or
monstrous, but by government agency. Windust is a tool of government
agency and its cumbersome and often ineffectual ventures with multinational
business and agency.
In contrast, in GR, the monstrous and insidious forces are invisible and
mysterious, beyond the comprehension of, let alone, the reach of any
coordinated counter cultural resistance. The force is, for lack of a
better term, as Dwight Eddins so artfully and elequantly describes it, a
Gnostic Force. This force is born from Pynchon's readings of Adams and is
the driving force or theme that makes V. a masterpiece first novel.
On Mon, Jun 15, 2015 at 7:46 AM, Thomas Eckhardt <
thomas.eckhardt at uni-bonn.de> wrote:
> "Brock? Windust? Not forces invisible, mysterious, insidious, monstrous.
> Just here and now. So What? "
>
> Whatever else they may be, Vond and Windust are also tools of "forces
> invisible, mysterious, insidious, monstrous." Tools which can be discarded
> at any time.
>
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