Christianity and Pynchon

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What was that comment someone made earlier about
the works inviting projection of the reader's own 
pejudices? The below comments seem to bear out
that idea pretty well. But there are elements of
the texts which seem to work against that very strong
tendency. And the simple decency which does
seem to be sprinkled throughout them certainly
preceded christianity, although I can see why people
of the christian faith would tend to cling to them and
claim them as evidence for a pro-christian Pynchon-
there being so little there to cling to, much of it
deliberately undercut.


In a message dated 7/30/02 3:42:40 AM, lycidas2 at earthlink.net writes:

<< Yeah, whatever, the facts are are that Pynhcon is a CHRISTIAN.
You can say whatever, bu the facts are known: TRP was raised a catholic. 
This is the most important fact about his biography. >>