why I am not a Hindoo

[Swing Hammerswing]

>The known facts of his biography are just a few but the textual evidences
>that you cannot put him in any ideological corner are many.

I'm not arguing ideology. There is no corner, no box, POMO or MO or whatever 
that I'm putting. The known facts of his biography are not so few. We know 
quite a lot about the man, but people seem very reluctant to accept the 
biographical facts and often select or distort them to fit a particular 
reading.



No need for this opposition to deconstruct Christianity (or any other 
religion) and show its
>genuine defects like William Slothrop does.

What William Slothrop represents is not deconstruction of Christianity, but 
what is happening to
Christianity, what Wicks will confront. The most important thing happening 
in the William passage is the
Newtonian WIND.



>
>So "what is perceived as a matter of faith in" [one corner of the world] 
>"is
>perceived as fantasy" [in another corner] -- that's the way it goes and
>Salman Rushdie is very good in telling about those absurdities of religious
>intolerance.

Yes, btw, Hinduism is very tolerant of other religions.

>
>Yes, and the great world religions are still confusing the minds of the
>masses so we have to admit that the project of the Enlightenment was a
>failure, at least up to now.

Most religious peoples I know are not confused at all. You might say they 
have what seculars
have repressed,  a positive paranoia, everything is connected, and I am part 
of the everything that flows, "we are blessed by everthing and everything we 
look upon is blessed" (Yeats),  that is,  looking East, Enlightenment is a 
blessed state. For the seculars, everything is either chaos-anti-paranoia-or 
everthing is connected but not benevolent, not blessed, but cursed, some 
unseen force of evil, some dynamo turns the hands of time and there is 
nothing in the stone but coal, oil, plastics and products, and waste, this 
is presented
as a plethora of religious doctrines, the dualistic Manichaeism alluded to 
here in V. for example. Now David Morris asked about the
two types of Roman Catholicism in the novel V. You tell me,
anyone show me where I am wrong on this. Please, I would
love to here anyone talk about this. It's as clear as
bell, it's right in the novel. Show me how it is
deconstructed. This living earth, this womb of rock, this
Virgin Mary, Mara, marks a radical shift from P's
short fiction (where btw, the Catholic allusions are so
many and so transparent), a shift that once made, drives
all of his works.
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