Tantra in Pynchon's Against the Day

[Mark Kohut]

I like mr Rothfork's notion but I would add that TRP's meaning seems to also contain epiphanic moments that define....such grace. 

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> On May 2, 2017, at 5:04 AM, Kai Frederik Lorentzen <lorentzen at hotmail.de> wrote:
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> "The noted Quaternionist Dr. V. Ganesh Rao of Calcutta University was seeking a gateway to the Ulterior, as he liked to phrase it, having come to recognize the wisdom of simply finding silence and allowing Mathematics and History to proceed as they would." (p. 130)
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> https://oak.ucc.nau.edu/jgr6/pynchon_against.htm
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> John Rothfork: Tantra in Pynchon's Against the Day
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> > ... What Pynchon calls grace seems to be related to what Hindus call rasa that invites us to taste or savor experience rather than substituting talk, ideas, and explanations for the experience. (...) The answer to the complexities offered by the novel, if we can call it an answer, seems to be rasa, beauty, or grace ... <
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> https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rasa_(aesthetics)
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