MDMD Christ & History

[Terrance]

Otto wrote:
> 
> I don't know if the Jesuit-question is at the core of M&D and I don't see
> them presented negatively by Pynchon, more the contrary.
> 
> Otto


I don't see them as either negative or positive, but as the perfect
example of what M&D is all about. Also, when P was writing this book and
the novel V. (and I have been able to identify several popular fictions
with Jesuit protagonists that P read) the Jesuit question had to do, as
it does today, with Marxism. While I think P rejects Marxism, he sends
the Basque founder of the Society of Jesus to the Pagan sewers after he
argues Marxism, he leans very far to the left side and the East side.