why I am not a Hindoo

[Courtney Givens]

>From: Thomas Eckhardt <thomas.eckhardt at uni-bonn.de>
>To: Courtney Givens <givenscourtney at hotmail.com>
>CC: pynchon-l at waste.org
>Subject: Re: why I am not a Hindoo
>Date: Wed, 06 Jun 2001 21:16:04 +0100
>
>But, Courtney, this was my point: No orthodox Roman Catholicism but 
>syncretism -
>that is, if we are dealing with a religious view of the world here at all. 
>If
>Pynchon is indeed up to this, the interesting question would be whether 
>this
>syncretism can be contained within Catholicism, including the less orthodox
>strands of that belief, whether it is dominated by an overall - 
>aesthetically,
>ethically and certainly overall very complicated - RC point-of-view, or 
>whether
>there lies some kind of world-view at the heart of this novel that would be
>fundamentally opposed to RC  ideology (and, as everybody knows, fundamental
>opposition to RC ideology usually is a Pavlovian response to a RC 
>upbringing).
>
>Thomas
>
>P.S. Will read chapter 11 as soon as I find the time for it.
>


OK, now we are cooking with gas, great! We have the question formulated 
right. The question is now, not about
christianity or definitions of Christianity or Orthodox Christianity or  
what we think P has done
despite what he has written, our new question is about RC and syncretism and 
this is in fact what we find in the novel V.

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