Odds of another Pynchon novel

[Jerome Park]

What makes these early novels so much better than the California books is
the Manichaeism beyond and, in GR, the Orphic Song, or the hymn to
scatterbrained Mother Nature's Grace, a force so mysterious only God knows
the measure of.

On Mon, Jun 15, 2015 at 6:56 PM, Jerome Park <jeromepark3141 at gmail.com>
wrote:

> 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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