Odds of another Pynchon novel

[Mark Kohut]

I promised not to comment ever again on the ATD detractors which promise I
am breaking simply to say whatever are the possible reasons AtD is not great...
is NOT that it does not have "much in the way of soul".

Once more, baffled.

If one who values ATD less highly than I do said it had 'too much soul"....
I would not be baffled.

So it goes.

On Wed, Jun 17, 2015 at 11:57 AM, rich <richard.romeo at gmail.com> wrote:
> so, in the later books has Pynchon just assumed those forces are a
> done-deal, a given, and like computers part of the fabric of the times we
> currently live in? In essence, no need to even assume those things anymore
> beyond slight flashes of utopian feeling (hippies, anarchism, etc.)
> I think that's what's disappointing about AtD--it's almost a parody of those
> sacred truths so feelingly delineated in books like GR. for such a hefty
> book, it doesnt have much in the way of soul. I'm talking off the cuff here
> but I think AtD will be the last we see of those mysterious and fecund
> massive behemoths.
>
> rich
>
> On Tue, Jun 16, 2015 at 9:41 PM, David Morris <fqmorris at gmail.com> wrote:
>>
>> 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
>
>
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