GRGR(24) Father Rapier's ABSOULUTE

[Paul Mackin]

On Sat, 15 Apr 2000, Terrance wrote:
> 
> Wouldn't that make him Advocatus Dei for the radical Jesuit
> Teilhard de Chardin? No, probably not. Although, I think de
> Chardin is a guy Pynchon would dig, until he got to that
> Absolute stuff.
> 
> Now, the word Return is a tricky one in GR. Here (GR.539) we
> are told that Rapier is preaching against Return in the
> sense that de Chardin wrote against it.

One can't help reading these passages against the backdrop of Washington
DC on this bleak overcast Sunday morning--a new generation of young
Believers in the Possiblity of Return once more making the scene and
Devil's Advocate Father Rapier once again giving his now famous "Critical
Mass" sermon.

			P.