GR 'Streets'

[Mark Wright AIA]

Howdy
--- Terrance <lycidas2 at earthlink.net> wrote:

> Love and human friendship. Yeah, this is really an excellent post. 

Lets not be nasty, Terrance. If you wish, you are free to call me an
idiot openly, i don't mind. Really. 
I don't think P needs to "believe" any of the fairytale nonsense he
uses, and it is astounding how we all seem to (including me, I suppose)
assume that P would agree with our own upbringing on the topics of
"religion" and an "afterlife". P's final words on the subject in GR
seem to me to consign the souls of the dead to stones. Are we to assume
that P expects to inhabit a stone after he dies? About all I think you
ought to take from P's corpus is a sense that he thinks some fairy
tales are just maybe less malign than others. Which may be your
point...



> Slothrop and Geli (a novice Witch, what of her religion? seems to be
> a
> pretty positive influence in the novel) atop the Brocken. A ritual.
> Seems like a pretty positive view of religion. But then there is the
> fact that the Hitler youth used that same "sacred space" (Eliade is
> indispensable to a reading of Pynchon's use of the sacred/profane).
> We
> get the story of Amy Sprue and another mention of Antinomianism.
> Antinomianism is the charge against PAUL (very important figure in
> Pynchon's novels--V., GR, M&D) and the Anabaptists. 
> 
> THEIR religion is the only one that is condemned by GR.


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