MDDM 35 Christ and History

Otto o.sell at telda.net
Thu Feb 21 04:54:45 CST 2002


Terrance wrote:

"On top of all this, RC is one hell of a tale teller. Isn't he? They guy can
spin a yarn!"

Indeed! Pynchon has been very successful with this character, necessarily
unreliable and therefor great in entertaining his audience & us, the
readers.

By the way I don't think that _M&D_ can be definitely considered as anti-
this or that. It's not anti-Catholic or anti-jesuit, but as Terrance (and
Mutualcode) say reflecting or "satirizing the absurd paranoid anti-jesuit
and anti-Catholic politics" of those days.

Otto






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