[U]nlike Wittgenstein and Heidegger, who argue that the mystical lies outside the domain of science, Herbert and Pynchon suggest that the mystical is rather a part of science yet to be discovered. As we pointed out in the Lot 49 review, Pynchon asserts that the mystical exists, but its existence is in an order of reality beyond our naïve concepts of logic and time. Herbert, too, proposes several ideas about how the mystical not only might coexist with, but also complete, our understanding of the real.

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