‘Inherent Vice’ and Divine Virtue: Fellowship with the God Who Sees Us

Unlike Shasta’s seedy companions, God will never cast us ashore due to our inherent vice.

Eat Your Vegetables: “The Crying of Lot 49” (Pynchon, 1966)

It’s a kind of mystery novel, so you are tempted to figure out the puzzle that leaves the novel’s central character flummoxed.