Christianity and Pynchon

Otto ottosell at yahoo.de
Fri Aug 2 09:30:28 CDT 2002


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From: "Terrance" <lycidas2 at earthlink.net>
To: "Otto" <ottosell at yahoo.de>
Cc: <pynchon-l at waste.org>
Sent: Friday, August 02, 2002 3:22 PM
Subject: Re: Christianity and Pynchon
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>
> Otto wrote:
> > >
> > > Why is this fact more important than the fact that he was raised a
> > > catholic?
> > >
> >
> > Because the US is mainly protestant, not catholic.
> >
> > Otto
>
>
> Sorry, this makes little sense to me. While it's true that the US is
> mainly protestant, not catholic, this doesn't make P's catholic
> upbringing less important than his protestant family tree.
>
> I think Paul's post on this was quite insightful.
>
> Why do you think so little has been written about P's mother and her
> family?
> Critical habit perhaps?
>

I assume that, for good reasons, there's no additional info on these
personal topics available.

"Pay no attention to the man behind the curtain."
http://www.salon.com/media/1998/09/22media.html

additional links (including his niece!!) at:
http://www.ottosell.de/pynchon/bio.htm

So maybe it's good to follow Wittgenstein here.

He has included some fictionalised personal material (in an obviously
deconstructive way) from his fathers' line in GR (pp. 554-556), but none
about his mothers' catholic forefathers, as far as I know. Amy Sprue hasn't
been burned by the Inquisition, but by Puritans: "Lot of ill will about
those chickens, as you can imagine." (p. 329)

Which again reminds me of HoD where the original skipper of Marlow's ship
had been killed because of some hens.

Otto

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