Christianity and Pynchon

[Doug Millison]

Greg,  he claims to live in New Orleans, too.  Go figure. He never lets
facts get in the way of his story.



At 4:48 PM +0200 8/2/02, alfredjprufrock at club-internet.fr wrote:
>DM> One is not MORE important than the other, but the two are important
>DM> together.  Protestants started this country.  Catholics invaded it
>later:
>DM> first the French who supported "enemy" tribes against us, then about a
>DM> hundred years later the Irish rabble.  But I think in terms of dissecting
>DM> P's works that it is important to remember this country's founders did
>not
>DM> revere the Virgin.
>
>er...excuse me?
>
>the french were in america before the brits, david my dear. french
>fishermen in newfoundland from the early 1500s, cartier in 1534.
>french settlement in florida in 1562... the first brit settlement was in
>1587, dare i think.
>
>there weren't many of us, mostly fur traders, we never were settlers, but
>you know. hence we did not invade america, we owned lousiana
>anyway. the TRUE founders of this country did revere the virgin!!!
>they put her name everywhere!!! planted signs in her name and in the
>names of all the saints they could think of. and what about the
>spaniards in the south?
>
>what about the forgotten founders of this country, david, uh? more
>than the slothrops and winthrops, they're the real losers of america,
>and as such, are to be taken into account in pynchon's works.
>
>man, and how we love that virgin mary...
> no but seriously, i think there is something with the catholic side
> of america that's been wiped out because it's indeed the history of
> the losers, the french, the spaniards, the mexicans. but they're
> there alright, the whole time.
>
>
>greg