Government Lies?

[Terrance]

This is the Pynchon list. What we discuss is up to us. I
will post about the religion in the novel V.. I will do so
not because I am religious woman or because I believe in god
or because I think Pynchon is a religious man or believes in
god. I will do so not as a preacher or moralizer and not
because I believe Pynchon is preaching to his readers or is
a moralizer. I will do so because I think religion is a very
important  subject in Pynchon's books. I think The Education
of Henry Adams and Mount Saint Michel and Chartres is an
important source for this novel. This novel opens with the
Catholic Virgin--Christmas EVE, she has been "shadowed",
like Oedipa Mass, it ends with Astarte, between, on 533
pages in my edition, religion is discussed more than any
other subject. If you don't want to read posts that discuss
the religious subjects in TRP's fiction, filter all of my
posts, because most of them, will include quotes from the
novel V. and the major sources Pynchon used to write it. 

This is hobby for me, I don't post about religion in TRP's
fiction to convert people or do the good works of whatever
gods there may be. Be that as it may, I contend that TRP
writes about religion and that he  is a satirist. I contend
that his target is Western Civilization. I contend the Novel
V. is not a post modernist fiction. I contend that it is not
a fable of subversion. It is a satire and it is corrective. 

When I argued, during GRGR, that TRP takes a strong moral
position on Gender, I was applauded, but if I argue the same
on other issues, not PC and popular these days, I will
ridiculed.  Here, in our V.V., these early chapters,  the
treatment of women is outrageous and TRP's has sharpened his
satirical teach to bite the male YOU--there are two such
addresses to the reader here in the early chapters--right on
the ass. Deal with
it. 

Jane


PS I see a Yo-Yo, but of course, if it's not too obvious, I
have wild imagination, I have no problem seeing the Shuttle
as a Yo-Yo either.