MDDM 35 Christ and History

[Terrance]

jbor wrote:
> 
> 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 disagree, but Yeah, shouldn't have put that in there, it's been
peaceful and productive here, sorry. But, you know better than most, how
a certain jack-ass can get your goat. But, I'll let him quibble with his
own self now. 


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.

I agree, and that's why I posted the long one on Anti Catholicism,
Anti-Jesuitism  and American Nativism. 

PS I think your right about Uptown being the more Hip and happening
place to be and that the party is ending as people head uptown. In this
sense, Stencil's exit personifies the phrase, Uptown is taking over.