Manichaeism (WAS predestination & the preterite)

[Paul Mackin]

Vaska wrote:

> Vaska, who bets she's the only *semi*-baptised soul on this list and has no
> idea what Augustine's seedy past has to do with Thomas Pynchon; but what the
> hell....

>>>>Well, maybe not his seedy past, but his tendency to identify original sin with the fact that we all die (something
Pagels' finds preposterous by the way) seems relevent as all
get out to Pynchon.

			P.