Odds of another Pynchon novel

Thomas Eckhardt thomas.eckhardt at uni-bonn.de
Wed Jun 17 12:51:43 CDT 2015


Religious and mythical vs. political forces? The 
political/economical/technological aspect has always been part of it ("I 
need my night's blood, my funding (...)"). But yes, the shorter novels 
are more overtly political and the "Gnostic" aspect is toned down. THEY 
are more concretely identified with government agency -- or, more to the 
point, the agency of hidden forces within and outside the government 
(e.g. the cabals who brought us Paperclip, Iran-Contra and Latin 
American death squads).



Am 16.06.2015 um 00:56 schrieb Jerome Park:
> 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.
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