Odds of another Pynchon novel

[Jerome Park]

GR may be read as an answer to Eliot's Wasteland

“the peace which passeth understanding,”

The joy that I Am!


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On Mon, Jun 15, 2015 at 7:02 PM, Jerome Park <jeromepark3141 at gmail.com>
wrote:

> 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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