"the Slothropite heresy" (Re: Religion

[jbor]

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> Black Judas? No, William Slothrop did not write on Black
> Judas, he wrote "On Preterition", wherein he argued
> ("feelings of action and reaction being in the air"), that
> Everything in the Creation has an equal and opposite
> counterpart, so that if Jesus was for the elect (an important qualification
> here Eric, and I'm happy to disabuse you
> of this misreading of P's texts, is that William is not a
> christian as you are applying the term here--a generalization)
> Judas Iscariot was for the Preterite. He says, we have to
> love Judas too. Where did William get this idea? Didn't
> he get this idea in part by looking at the pigs and READING
> what happened to them as a Parable?

William Slothrop was a Christian, and is described as such in the text
("Despite the folklore and the injunctions in his own Bible ... " 555.13).
His tract, _On Preterition_, where he argued that "what Jesus was for the
elect, Judas Iscariot was for the Preterite" (555.35), was *perceived* as
heresy by the "Elect in Boston".

> Tyrone thinks, not Pynchon. It's a route back and therefore
> disqualified. Not only is it a way back (a gnostic path)
> it is a way that could have been in the begining or at the
> fork in the road of the past or can be
> after the destruction of..., that's why it's Tyrone's musing
> and not TRP's.

Those three rhetorical questions which precede the sentence beginning "It
seems to Tyrone Slothrop ... " at 556.14 are, at least arguably, posed by
the textual narrative rather than by Tyrone. That adjectival modifier
"Slothropite" deliberately distances the phrase in the second question from
Tyrone's pov. If it was in fact *only* Slothrop asking those three questions
then I think we might safely assume that the qualifier would be either
"William's" or "his ancestor's", rather than its actual nomination as "the
Slothropite heresy". Indeed, Tyrone is in fact another manifestation
(product ... emblem ... symptom) of the "Slothropite heresy" and, unlike
Stencil, Tyrone never refers to himself in the third person.

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