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>What's P's religion?

What's Kerouac's religion?

What's Joyce's religion?

All good questions, i suppose, though I expect
that people would rather believe that Joyce
did not have a religion or only had one
as the nightmare of HIS story,  that K's mixture
was nothing we know as christian, let alone catholic,
that if P can be said to have religion, he hasn't got
religion,  like those that have gotton or
want to be given that old time religion and that one
should not go around using the word religion at all when
discussing these men, but of course if we don't use the
word religion we will simply substitute another
word for it, philosophy maybe, though that wouldn't be
right, or we could say that religion should not be
said to be Peeee's or Kay's or Jay's, or even
said to be present in their texts, but that wouldn't be right
either. so religion is the term I like best because
it describes what we find in the books these men have written.
We might define it as a totalizing commitment to a
particular construct of ultimate reality, including
the nature of humanity, the significance of history,
and the governance of the cosmos; not ruling out of course
the existance of spiritual forces both malign and benevolent. Of
course feel free to define it as "religion" or to
cite some character in P's fiction and argue that
he/she represents P's religion or not-religion.
I think the most important sourse for P's religion,
for P period, is Henry Adams. If P agrees with WC on
facts and history, does he disagree with Adams?

"Man created nothing." Henry Adams

1,500 years, all those block busting names he drops,
Galileo, Kepler, Spinoza, Descartes, Leibnitz, Newton,
all religious men, all paranoid thinkers, men of faith,
men that believed in unity. Perhaps within this unity
we can set Puritan against Herero and discover P's
religion?



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