MDDM Ch. 5: There was this Jesuit...

[jbor]

on 5/10/01 11:37 AM, John Bailey at johnbonbailey at hotmail.com wrote:

> If I remember correctly,
> Mason & Dixon begin with a fairly innocent consideration of Jesuits (cf the
> genial reference to Fr. Boscovich) but this becomes more complicated as the
> novel progresses, and their suspicions are raised...

Thanks John. I agree that it will be interesting to keep an eye on what
develops later, but I'm still inclined to read the reference to Boscovich
here literally.  

Here's more biographical info on Boscovich (and a portrait) from Tim Ware's
website, including a somewhat garbled translation of an excerpt from
Nietzsche's _Beyond Good and Evil_.

http://www.hyperarts.com/pynchon/mason-dixon/extra/boscovich.html

There's a better, but by no means perfect, on-line version of Nietzsche's
first chapter, 'Prejudices of Philosophers', here:

http://www.marxists.org/reference/subject/philosophy/works/ge/nietzsc1.htm

best