Chapter 16: 167-174
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country wife, city wife
Pynchon's life values in evidence? He dislikes cities, seen elsewhere.
Bread & Wine, a kindness of the Almighty
Pynchon seeing the Eucharist as a 'kind' way of enacting the body
and blood of Christ belief in Christianity. A wonderful trope.
Death or its ev'ryday Coercions...Death's thousand Metaphors
See this theme in Against the Day; all of the day's necessities that are
against the simple living of life...all that is "against the day".
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Acted as a Lens, a moral refraction
Once again, light metaphor, lenses and refraction ala ATD.