M&D - Tyburn Tree 'resurrections' 'resurrections'

[Mark Wright AIA]

Howdy

--- rj <rjackson at mail.usyd.edu.au> wrote: (in part)

> I guess I meant primarily that orthodox (as in "common or garden")
> Christianity in all its variants will not entertain the possibility
> of
> were-beavers, sentient light bulbs, cyborgs &c, as Pynchon does....

Even I, atheist that I am, find myself bemused....
 
Pynchon is crafting fiction, not "entertain(ing) the possibility of
were-beavers" and the like.  He doesn't believe in the reality of his
fictional creations, or expect his readers to either.  Fiction is
fiction, perhaps most vividly so to its author.  Scripture is something
else, both in the intent of its authors ("Author?") and in the way
believers attend to it.

Mark
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