"But her innocent attention has reach'd unto the dead Vacuum ever at the bottom of my soul,-- humiliation absolute."
— Pynchon, Thomas (b. 1937)
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Work Title
Place of Publication
New York
Publisher
Henry Holt Company
Date
1997
Metaphor
"But her innocent attention has reach'd unto the dead Vacuum ever at the bottom of my soul,-- humiliation absolute."
Metaphor in Context
How might I speak of my true "Church," the planet-wide Syncretism, among the Deistick, the Oriental, the Kabbalist, and the Savage, that is to be,-- The Promise of Man, the redemptive Point, ever at our God-horizon, toward which all Faiths, true and delusional, must alike converge! Instead, I can only mumble and blurt, before the radiance of these young Pietists, something about being between preferments at the moment, so askew in my thoughts that Ive forgotten my new Commission, and indeed the Purpose of my Journey,-- even using "interprebendary" again, after promising a Certain Deity that I would refrain. But her innocent attention has reach'd unto the dead Vacuum ever at the bottom of my soul,-- humiliation absolute.
(p. 356)
(p. 356)
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Reading
Citation
Pynchon, Thomas. Mason & Dixon. New York: Henry Holt Company, 1997.
Date of Entry
11/08/2010
