MDDM 35 Christ and History

[jbor]

Terrance wrote:

> Unlike some, I don't
> read this novel as anti-Catholic or Anti Jesuit.  RC and the other
> narrators have been satirizing the absurd paranoid anti-jesuit and
> anti-Catholic politics.

I don't think anyone has been reading the novel as "anti-Catholic" or
"anti-Jesuit". I certainly don't read it this way. What it does do is give
voice to the extreme anti-Catholic and anti-Jesuit sentiments which
prevailed in England and America in the latter part of the 18th c., and
which had prevailed for quite a time up to that point. The representation of
these sentiments is in keeping with the historical authenticity of the great
bulk of Pynchon's text.

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