M & D The Read as long as the Line. "What, Our Time not precious!" guffaws a traveling sales Representative.--p 344.

[Mark Kohut]

Chap 34-35. One of the bleeding hearts of the book, yes?
( side bit: in his construction of his fictions, in which his themes and
meanings
do pervade everywhere, yet he does seem to shape some of the deepest
profundity into the centers of his fictions, no? Builds to it, then follows
the slope-out
to the end, sorta?)

Anyway, these chapters contain the oft-quoted lines "Who claims Truth,
Truth Abandons"....and "Does Brittania when she sleeps dream? Is America
her dream?--
....A very Rubbish-Tip for subjunctive Hopes" [reduced] to
declarative...Simplicities "that serve the ends of Governments---" and read
on [p345]

We get the Reverend's book on history, Christ and History. We get lots of
perspectives on history--how false it is."Who Claims Truth, Truth Abandons"
....[History is] a great disorderly Tangle of Lines"....--Cherrycoke...

We get, perhaps Pynchon's deepest 'ambiguities' about human
nature,--inherent vice [evil] or a legacy of History. See the horrors
recounted,--the Massacre Site, [p 344]  while a man of good conscience,
Dixon, still sleeps OK.

We get another anti-government attitude, another tidbit of TRP's
'anarchist-like' vision of people--"winning away from the realm of the
Sacred"..."into the bare mortal world that is our own", in a novel  about a
country forming itself into one.