S&M and religion

[Lycidas at worldnet.att.net]

In GR, Mondaugen is the "bodhisattva returned from exile."
How did this come to be? BTW, these chapters are more 60s
than any of the previous chapters, no? 

In mirrored time, after a little voyeurism mixed in his
dreams, Mondaugen, who suffers from southsickness and has
programed himself to awaken when the sferics play, hears the
song of Hedwig Vogelsang, whose purpose, like a postmodern
extension of Estella in Great Expectations, is to "tantalize
and send raving the race of man," stumbles us into a little
S&M Christian parody. Pynchon will use this
padodic/fantasic/comic method, mixing religion and S&M
throughout GR.   


As if the entire day had come into being only to prepare him
for this, he discovered a Bondel male, face down and naked,
the back and buttocks showing scar tissue from old
sjambokings as well as more recent wounds, laid open across
the flesh like so many toothless smiles. Hardening himself
the weakling Mondaugen approached the man...the white
vertebra that winked at him from one long opening.

"Don't touch him." Foppl...Raising his voice till it found
the hysterical-bitch level..."You like the sjambok, don't
you, Andreas."

"Like Jesus returning to earth, von Trotha is coming to
deliver you. Be joyful; sing hymns of thanks. And until then
love me as your parent, because I am von Trotha's arm, and
the agent of his will."

V..254