Tentative Theory of CoL49

[David Morris]

Some ancient texts and traditions say that identity, identifying as a
person, the whatever person you now occupy, is mostly an illusion.  Your
stories are just that : stories.  Identity seen as a narrative will ever
change as the narrator changes, and change is an inevitable non-illusion.
Some people claim to have found a motionless center from where ALL THINGS
first emanate, often call The Void, which is also called Silence.  One
can't live there, but it's supposed to be a nice refuge to visit.  This
world view usually inherently also believes in reincarnation (a
continuation of a kernel of life experience (and the concept of karma)),
but not always.

David Morris

On Thu, Oct 10, 2019 at 7:50 PM jody2.718 via Pynchon-l <pynchon-l at waste.org>
wrote:

> Psssst...Oedipa doesn't know she's fictional! Shhhhhh... she thinks she's
> real- like you and me! Not just an alluring character dreamt up by a stoned
> hippie/beatnik shacked up on the western edge of America,
> trying figure out the destiny of the vast continent at his back, as he
> stares out to sea.
>
> And what a long strange trail it might seem to him now- how far we've come
> since then- from Woodstock to Bumpstock...
>
> and still trying to be free.
>
> Self-identity is hard to pin down, but like a butterfly, once pinned, it
> ceases to be.
>
> Becoming, it seems, is the key.
>
> "Click"
>
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> "...At the end, when Passerine begins the auction, she has gravitated to a
> situation that makes sense to her, and when the door clicks shut, it's
> closing the rest of the world out - not jailing her Ugolino-like -
> centering her in a room where she will be somewhat empowered but, one
> hopes, not a threat to other bidders, and will learn more."
>
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> jody
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