who's Christian?

[David Morris]

It seems all this disagreement was over nothing then.  The title "religious 
writer" should never have been used.  "Paradoxical writer" would have been 
much better.  No argument there, only about the paradoxes themselves.  A 
much better topic.

DM

> >jbor:
> > There is no question that Pynchon writes *about* many and varied 
>religions. This, however, does not qualify him as a "religious writer" in 
>the sense you are attempting to imply.

>Terrance:
>Pynchon tells us in the Hirsch letter, that he had been reading up in 
>comparative religion and that in doing so he had discovered that the 
>relationships of humans and of cultures (and religions) in contact was much 
>deeper than he had understood  prior to reading the  comparative studies in 
>religion. Obviously he turned to Brown and deeper into Psychology here as 
>well. [snip] What I contend is a conflict much like Melville's deeply 
>reflected in the texts, a conflict, a paradoxical conflict,  that Pynchon 
>never resolves, but only hopes to.
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