Christianity and Pynchon

Terrance lycidas2 at earthlink.net
Tue Jul 30 07:49:16 CDT 2002


A typical ad hominem reply here. Nothing to add. No evidence.  no
textual support. 








Bandwraith at aol.com wrote:
> 
> 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. >>



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