answering doug

[Otto]

----- Original Message -----
From: "Doug Millison" <millison at online-journalist.com>
To: <pynchon-l at waste.org>
Sent: Friday, August 09, 2002 6:10 PM
Subject: answering otto

Me:
> >I cannot imagine
> >that he wants his novels to be read & understood in a 19th Century
> >pre-modernist style or the Bible.
>
>
Doug:
> Good point, and I expect you're right, but I've never made this argument
here.
>

Not as an argument but that's what you are doing when you say there are
eternal religious truths, it's what von Braun does too in the opening quote
of GR. This is why I believe you are wrong.

I have no prejudices against any religion, I simply think they're at best
useless, but mostly dangerous and desastrous in organized forms, open to any
kind of abuse (just look at OBL's claims past 9/11, to take a non-Christian
example). The deconstruction of the superstitious, the certainty of
believers, that's what I think pomo is about too.

I was a little bit angry that you had started another ad hominem attack on
Robert, despite our latest offlist exchange.

A nice weekend to all of you.

Otto

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