MDMD Cornelius

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http://www.xrefer.com/entry/143399

http://sunsite.icm.edu.pl/cjackson/c/p-corneli3.htm

What happens at the cape? The people change there behavior for a brief
time, the seem to move toward God or Love or something. But it doesn't
last. 
What was it that they changed them? 
Was it the rain? 
The Transit? 
Venus, Love? 
Or was it a different thing for different people? 
Was it fear and sin unto death for the Calvinists? 
Was it the bull's eye for the drosters? 
Was it the rain for the slaves? 
What is the moral lesson Wicks hopes the children will learn? 
That the cape was a sodom and Gomorra and god did nothing to destroy it? 
That the rain may purify, but for only a short while, after which men
will return to their wicked ways? 
Is there a gnostic bull's eye on humanity? 
That the Quakers are half way to the Hindu and some may go the other
half. 
Dixon is not named by Pynchon, but was named when the Old Testament was
more read and more influential then the New Testament. This changed, for
many Quakers the  Old Testament became rather less influential than the
Bhagavad-Gita or Antonia Bourignon.