Eliade & Boyarin

Terrance lycidas2 at earthlink.net
Mon Nov 26 01:34:02 CST 2001



Doug Millison wrote:
> 
> Good stuff on Eliade; he's hardly the final authority in interpreting
> religion, but well worth reading all the same.  

Pynchon read Eliade's books and they seem to have influenced him quite a
lot. 
But your right, he's hardly the final authority in interpreting religion
of anything else. 

Boyarin could be right. I don't know, just adding an opposing view from
a source we know Pynchon made use of is all.



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