pynchon-l-digest V-2 #29479

[Paul Mackin]

Otto wrote:

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> If it hasn't come to your mind immediately that Noah's job was technology
> and science it's because you've read it as a believer, which is not wrong at
> all in my opinion, but from a literary point of view it's obviously very
> early Science fiction. How many space operas are there telling the story of
> humans trying to leave a doomed Earth?

The New Testament for example.  Escape from Planet Earth to Planet Heaven.

Christianity is a technology and Saint Paul was it's Einstein.

P.

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