MDMD(1)--Wick's Collar

[Greg Montalbano]

>nder: owner-pynchon-l at waste.org
>
>andrew:  8.16 `a parsonickal Disguise' implying that Wicks is not really 
>a
>clergyman? Note how he claims that he should have been hanged and
>resurrected to justify his current `parsonickal' appearance. Perhaps
>the suggestion is that the only person fit to give moral, spiritual
>and/or religious guidance is Christ.
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>Yup.  just a little sampling of priestly self-disgust.  common enough for 
>those wearing the quotidian collar--all I can say is I can empathize.  
>Problem with being of the persuasion is we don't have that "destroying 
>Buddha Buddha" deal. 
>
>Richard (swing and another miss) Romeo

Plus, perhaps, some more of Pynchon's characters usual feeling of
impersonating an identity?

~G~

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