He couldn't be expected to find it on his own.
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There it is. The tag that assures me Pynchon was saying everything I suspected he was saying about self-help groups, both secular and non-secular. They profess to have the answers but they can't just give them to you for you to work out your own problems. The basic unspoken tenet of Alcoholics Anonymous is "You can't be expected to stop drinking on your own." Maybe it's spoken. I don't know! I've only gone as a guest to a bunch of meetings!
The basic blatantly spoken tenet of Christian dogma: "You can't be expected to find eternal salvation on your own." What can you find on your own? Enlightenment, maybe? But then that's been co-opted by Gurus who make loads of money and own fleets of Rolls Royces who say otherwise!
The only thing you can find on your own is an orgasm and people have a lot of negative shit to say about that as well.
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