Christianity and Pynchon

[David Morris]

Otto is right.  No matter what his mother WAS, or his father WAS, or even 
his ancestors WERE, you cannot from that deduce what Pynchon's religion IS 
(assuming he has one).  You can presume to know from his writings, but you'd 
have to make quite a case to expect others to believe you.

That said, there are many aspects of many forms of Xianity in GR and V, and 
I think that Terrance has presented the beginnings of some compelling 
arguments about how Pynchon is using Xian and other mythologies.  Some day I 
hope he (Terrance) ties them all together into a paper or book.

David Morris

>From: "Otto" <ottosell at yahoo.de>
<
> >Terrance:
> > 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.
> >
>
>2. I don't even see this fact. Facts are just the playthings of lawyers. I 
>know he's got a protestant father and a catholic mother who, according to 
>Jules Siegel, was an anti-Semite. But contrary to you I don't draw from 
>that info that TP was raised an anti-Semite.
>
>3. The most important fact of his biography seems to me that he's got very 
>puritan forefathers.

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