Pynchon's mythology

I think this is what Pynchon was getting at in the Playboy Japan interview
("If you look at it from another angle, Bin Laden is a symbol"), of a piece
with the way he shows individuals and governments under the sway of
mythical figures throughout his fiction. I'm currently reading James
Hillman's _Re-Visioning Psychology_, published in 1973, a complement to
Pynchon's fiction in many interesting ways, especially in its treatment of
myth. Pynchon provided a support quote for one of Hillman's books.

Kurt:
>Al Quaida and Bin Laden are myths, pop-idolsand it is no longer important
>if Bin Laden is still alive or not. Bin >Laden has become the Che Guevera
>of the Arab world, and if he is dead he's a martyr.


http://www.nytimes.com/2002/06/23/international/asia/23ARAB.html
"Al Qaeda Says Bin Laden Is Well, and It Was Behind Tunis Blast"