..., which “actually conceals the Tree of Life” (p. 753). The sacred guarantor of return is thus co-opted by technological mysticism as part of a one-way process designed to thwart the renewal of life, which Captain Blicero disparages as “this cycle of infection and death” (p. 724). He imagines...

..., but he does not see that Werner von Braun, the author of the noble sentiments about the continuity of our spiritual existence after death, is the butt of Pynchon s bitter joke, as he might have seen had he considered the evil von Braun character in the book, Weissmann/Blicero. The author Flesch...

..., but he does not see that Werner von Braun, the author of the noble sentiments about the continuity of our spiritual existence after death, is the butt of Pynchon s bitter joke, as he might have seen had he considered the evil von Braun character in the book, Weissmann/Blicero. The author Flesch...

..., but he does not see that Werner von Braun, the author of the noble sentiments about the continuity of our spiritual existence after death, is the butt of Pynchon s bitter joke, as he might have seen had he considered the evil von Braun character in the book, Weissmann/Blicero. The author Flesch...

..., but he does not see that Werner von Braun, the author of the noble sentiments about the continuity of our spiritual existence after death, is the butt of Pynchon s bitter joke, as he might have seen had he considered the evil von Braun character in the book, Weissmann/Blicero. The author Flesch...

..., but he does not see that Werner von Braun, the author of the noble sentiments about the continuity of our spiritual existence after death, is the butt of Pynchon s bitter joke, as he might have seen had he considered the evil von Braun character in the book, Weissmann/Blicero. The author Flesch...

... the continuity of our spiritual existence after death, is the butt of Pynchon s bitter joke, as he might have seen had he considered the evil von Braun character in the book, Weissmann/Blicero. The author Flesch Review 275 of the epigraph undercuts its content, at least once you have read Pynchon s re...