Odds of another Pynchon novel

[David Morris]

Scientific analysis is porn in GR because it strips away the "mysterious
and fecund" as sacred truths embodied by the Virgin, and replaces that
magic with a mathematical equation. GR's Arch-Villian attempts to reduce
Life's complexity (mystery and existential awe), our natural experience of
the Spiritual, to a determinantable (dead) End to All Mystery.  In this
regard, Pynchon is very religious/spiritual in his deeper works.

David Morris

On Tuesday, June 16, 2015, Jerome Park <jeromepark3141 at gmail.com> wrote:

> But it is Adams's Education, and, satirically, Stencil's quest or search
> for meaning, for identity and causality, for what, for Adams, is lost and
> can't be recovered, the Force that he describes in the famous chapter on
> the Virgin, that is formative. Not so White Godless or Frazer...Eliade etc.
> The Virgin force, mysterious and fecund has degenerated into the inanimate.
>
> It's Christmas Eve, but the Virgin will not deliver. Still, the force of
> Mother is all around, yet only the Father, in fragments is known. But She
> is. GR may be read as a response to Pig and Profane and the whole sick
> crew's abortion.
>
>
>
> On Mon, Jun 15, 2015 at 11:18 PM, David Morris <fqmorris at gmail.com
> <javascript:_e(%7B%7D,'cvml','fqmorris at gmail.com');>> wrote:
>
>> It goes much deeper than Adams. The Virgin isn't owned by Adams. His is
>> but one framing.
>>
>> On Monday, June 15, 2015, Jerome Park <jeromepark3141 at gmail.com
>> <javascript:_e(%7B%7D,'cvml','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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