BtZ42 section 9

[Mark Kohut]

Little things we gotta love, I suggest.


"Why is your equation only for angels, Roger?" Jessica asks, not getting
the
metaphor, too 'grounded' in her immediate reality to even see the
'abstraction' of the metaphor
yet, we also know or will learn (if this is our first time) of angel used
in lots of
other ways, some borrowed from Rilke, in the rest of the novel.

"I knew you'd be mad", she says, so female coy, after she tells him of
Pirates remark that
the more rockets fired the greater the chance of getting hit..."

and Roger says he isn't mad that Pirate is right----it is Cheap Nihilism.

I am remembering someone who condemned Pynchon for his 'cheap nihilism' so
to speak
and so I always reread this as preemptive refutation.......

Since IF THIS, endless rockets raining down is ALL the books is, then it is
cheap nihilism
BUT we know how much more it is and how it is full of anti-nihilism, not
least in the Roger and
Jessica story.
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