debts & trespasses

[Jason Witherspoon]

At 7:06 AM 2/21/97, Brian D. McCary wrote:
>The differance is not irrelevant.  Trespasses connotes property values
>as being primary, while debts inplies fiscal concerns and a certain
>abstract character to sin.  Maybe one of the reasons that I fell so
>hard for Pynchon and his ruminations on money, shit, and the Word
>was this early indoctrination.

You owe it to yourself to check out Norman O. Brown's _Life Against Death_,
if you haven't already.  I think P even cops to it being a primary source
somewhere.

_Love's Body_ is great too.  Very much in the spirit of Nietzsche (the best
side of Nietzsche).

On Nietzsche's nihilism:  Nietzsche is not, imo, a moral relativist.  If
you're a monotheist, Nietzsche might seem like a nihilist/relativist, I
suppose.  If you're a Greek pagan, Nietzsche would probably be perceived as
a deeply religious writer.  The "God" which Nietzsche proclaims deceased is
very specifically Jehovah.

                                                  Jason Witherspoon

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