MDMD(8) Christ's true Pity
Vaska Tumir
vaska at geocities.com
Wed Sep 17 18:55:37 CDT 1997
Steven Mass muses:
[BIG SNIP]
>Sojourner wrote in reply to CKCK(1):
>> Interesting, but I hesitate to jump into this too much simply because
>> church doctrine is so involved. Any Loyolans here who might
>> be able to offer their take on this.
>
>I'd be interested to know why RC and SJ doctrine should constrain our
>speculations about P.'s intent here.
Shouldn't constrain but enlarge and expand, rather: once upon a time Pynchon
was a practising Catholic and would [still] have all sorts of things up his
sleeve as material for the allusions and little intertextual games he
obviously joys in setting up.
Vaska
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> Steve Maas
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