MDDM Ch. 65 strange inconsistencies

[Doug Millison]

I'd love to hear more about Dave's reading (and his always welcome
suggestions of things to read) in this historical Jesus area, it's an area
of much interest for me, too. From the hints he drops here and there in his
texts, I think it's fairly important to Pynchon, too.  It seems obvious
that the Christian impact on the way we think of history and destiny, the
unfolding of time, the tension between the spiritual and the material all
achieve significance in his work. The sense of yearning for liberation and
the infrequent but intense focus on small moments of human solidarity
characterized by love and acceptance in Pynchon's texts seem to show an
inability to let  go of a powerful undertow of belief in something that
transcends material existence as we know it.  I think it's the co-optation
of that yearning in institutions that betray and abuse believers that
Pynchon's texts indict, but it's all nuanced and problematic.  Just my two
cents, don't have a cow, man.