GRGR (2) "great bright hand"

[Paul Mackin]

On Mon, 7 Jun 1999, Terrance F. Flaherty wrote:
 
> 
> Doug Millison wrote:
> 
> > I don't know. TRP brings in all sorts of arcana -- we've already
> > encountered the allusion to the I Ching ("Youthful Folly" wasn't it), but
> > it doesn't seem as fundamental, to me at least, as the Puritan theology. Do
> > you see a significant Daoist element in GR?
> >
> 
> How can one argue that Puritan theology is more fundamental? Because it's alluded
> to more often?

Also it's easier to follow, isn't it? Nothing terribly esoteric or 
i-ching-istic about this extreme Calvinistic or Puritan version of
Christian theology, which isn't taken straight of course but rather turned
on its head--so that the usual arrangement of Us being Saved and Them
being Condemned is reversed (more or less). Very elegant to my
sensibilities and so very  suggestive of man's natural condition on earth.
(the other side of the coin of course is that eastern philosophies tend to
be quite open ended and more in keeping with what Pynchon's sposed to be
about)

			P.