GR 'Streets'

[jbor]

on 16/4/03 8:43 AM, s~Z at keithsz at concentric.net wrote:

>>>> I've never said that the narrative voice is atheist<<<
> 
> Then what does this comment have to do with the passage and this discussion:
> 
> "I realise that even suggesting that atheism might be a driving force within
> Pynchon's texts is tantamount to treason here, and not open for civil
> discussion, but it seems to me that the possibility that a "God" or gods
> don't exist is consistently excluded by some when in fact it is the basis of
> belief systems held by many people across all cultures. Such intolerance
> does make a mockery of claims to pluralism and respect, of course."
> 

It has to do with the way that one or two people on this list go berserk and
attempt to close down the discussion every time a suggestion is made that
this or that passage or the text as a whole isn't endorsing a Christian
worldview. I never once claimed that "the narrative voice is atheist".

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