Signed Pynchon - last chance

[Samuel Moyer]

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From: "Doug Millison" <DMillison at ftmg.net>

>
> For those of you interested in Pynchon's biography and how it intersects
> with his fiction, I think it's interesting to note that he has had his son
> enrolled in a church-affiliated school.  In my personal experience such a
> decision often reflects a parent's values vis-a-vis the particular church
> that runs or has an affiliation with the school. In the case of a
celebrity
> parent like Pynchon, who would presumably be able to get his child into
any
> NYC private school, including those with no church affiliation, I assume
> that the church affiliation may have something to do with his choice of
this
> particular school.  Other factors might come into play, of course.  But I
> can't imagine somebody with strong antipathies to organized religion
sending
> a young child to a school with a significant religious affiliation.
>

Good Point.  There are lots of reasons for sending kids to religious
(affiliated) schools.  I know people that are college educated/ intelligent
people who could care less about religion and send their children to
religious schools because the education is better, or there is some social
reason, etc.... many reasons...   but I think an intellectual, like TRP,
would not send his children for those reasons... but rather he would have to
believe that his child is getting something at such a school that is
important.... and obviously some sort of value system plays into this.... of
course another possibility is that his wife insisted on it ....

Sam