The Quest and the Grail (or Logocentrism)

[Mark Wright AIA]

Howdy
--- Terrance <Lycidas at worldnet.att.net> wrote:

This is cold by now, and I haven't worked up through the rest of the
thread yet, but thanks for your marvelous post of a few days ago.

> (snip) Pynchon's use of religion is incredibly elaborate and
> convoluted. (snip) Sympathy for the Puritan coming up....I shouted
out > who killed the Kennedy(s)....

Whe-un after all (beat beat) it was you and me...

Someone, blessed with time on their hands, could work on the
relationship between the elaborate structures of the various religious
traditions P makes use of in his fiction and the several varieties of
paranoia he presents. (Doubtless someone has.)  Paranoia is the
clinical extreme of the normal efforts of mind to give shape to
reality. And the religious traditions?  P tends to present these
traditions and their adherents with tenderness, respect and, of course,
sympathy. Sympathy for the Puritan, indeed!

de-lurking for the nonce,
Mark

PS -- I had occasion the other day to freak an inert, indolent and
perhaps even coworker out with the thought that there is a soul in
every stone, and that his might be one of them.  Ha! Naturally, he's
been avoiding me ever since...

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