Christianity and Pynchon

[Paul Mackin]

Hi Otto

You're welcome. Massachusetts is a place of wonderment to Americans as well as
the rest of the world.  The old Puritan origins perhaps. In addition to
hanging they occasionally hack.  You're familiar no doubt with the famous Fall
River case.

Lizzie Borden took an ax
And gave her mother forty whacks
When she saw what she had done
She gave her father forty-one.

Back in the fifties there was a folk group called The Gateway Singers who had
a song "You can't ax your mother, in Massachusetts." Think I'm remembering
right. The group was at the hungry i (or was it eye) in San Francisco.I

P.

Otto wrote:

> Thanks Paul, I have been mistaken remembering the words of Steppenwolf:
> "Like good Christians, some would burn the witches"
> (Monster)
> http://www.steppenwolf.com
>
> Otto
>
> ----- Original Message -----
> From: "Paul Mackin" <paul.mackin at verizon.net>
> To: <pynchon-l at waste.org>
> Sent: Friday, August 02, 2002 6:55 PM
> Subject: Re: Christianity and Pynchon
>
> > Otto wrote:.
> > 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)
> >
> > In Salem they hanged them, not burned them.
> >
> > P.
>
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