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t as Melville,
> > more like Dickens critique of Mill & Co. in Hard Times,
> > but do note that P goes after capitalism in the Sloth essay.
> > The Sloth essay, yes man it's there, Melville and christianity

>Doesn't taking the Christian sources serious and for real inevitably turn a
>good catholic into a heretic opposing the organized church?

No, but it can.


>
>"Ulysses" opens with Mulligan mocking Catholicism, but is this hate?

Nope, but it was written by a catholic, a man born and
raised in the catholic church, just like TRP.
As Joseph Dewey asks in his essay on M&D:

Why then opt for such a narrator? And why a minister?

The narrative presence of Wicks Cherrycoke turns Mason & Dixon into an 
explicitly religious novel that explores the damgaed legacy of Chrisitanity, 
the emerging muscle of the Enlightenment and, finding both systems wanting 
for largely the same reasons, turning to the most unexpected sourse-the 
mysticism of the East-for (re)solution.

See Dewey's note #2 where he cites John A. McClure's essay, an essay that I 
have mentioned here, wherein McClure argues, convincingly, that "Pynchon  is 
the most exciting religious writer of our time." He also notes the best 
studies of Pynchon's work, i.e., Dwight Eddins, Molly Hite, but Dewey is 
perhaps too eager to discover an Eastern Solution. My own opinion is that 
Pynchon's turning East is much more complex and is in fact a turning full 
circle to American fragments shored against these American shores. Those 
fragments, I belive, are
the product of a catholic imagination, just as Ulysses is.
Why is it so so difficult for the critics, particularly
the postmodern critics to acknowledge this fact? There is, as
the Editor's note, a line that seeks to divide TRP in two. But
what unifies his vision? what can bridge the gap of the secular
postmodern "satires" (see Weisenburger's Fables of Subversion, his
introduction is a near perfect synopsis of the application
of Postmodern theory) and the deep "religious contemplations"
that we discover in all of his tales, from the very first story and in his 
latest novel. Is it an Eastern (re)solution? Or is it something
even more comprehensive, more American, catholic?







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