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[RICHARD ROMEO]

Hag says:  "In reading TRP's texts I have always quite automatically read 
not 

just Christianity but the entire monotheist Judeo/Christian/Islamic 

'diaspora' (as well as its precursors) as deeply integrated into Their 

structures - to the extent of forming the oldest and most prominent of 

three or four pillars. I'd be interested in arguments to the contrary."

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Are you sure sir just what Pynchon advocates or dismisses?  Second which 
relates to first is structures are needed (albeit with room for 
corruption)--many of the early church fathers were appalled at the 
attitudes of the gnostics who believed they didn't need the church or any 
hierarchy at all to become "as Christ".  Now i'm not suggesting that the 
church fathers were right but this is a complex issue (order vs. 
chaos)--seems each had benefits.  I would use the analogy of a librarian 
doing an online search and reviewing results and a novice doing an online 
search and reviewing results:  who would you beleive?  Again I'm not 
saying a librarian or a priest would know better but it doesn't seem to 
be one or the other.

Does Pynchon definitely positively denigrate Christianity?  I'm not so 
sure...it would seem we need Them to find Us and destroy them.



Richard Romeo

Coordinator of Cooperating Collections

The Foundation Center-NYC

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