Secular Exiles & Prodigal Returns

“One Groove’s Difference”: Inherent Vice by Thomas Pynchon

“Maybe the Golden Fang had sailed on to its fate, gathering those who hadn’t found their way to shore deeper into whatever complications of evil, indifference, abuse, despair they needed to become even more themselves.  Whoever they were.  Maybe Shasta had escaped all that.  Maybe she was [...]

Pynchon, Paranoia, and Prophecy

“A market needed no longer be run by the Invisible Hand, but now could create itself—its own logic, momentum, style, from inside.  Putting the control inside was ratifying what de facto had happened—that you had dispensed with God.  But you had taken on a greater, and more harmful, illusion.  The illusion of control.  That A [...]