Pynchon's "knewspeak"

[Dave Monroe]

This reminds me.  Someone (Terrance?) posted something
on Milton 'n' religion a while back that I can't
locate now, but something along the lines of ...

http://www.columbia.edu/~fs10/armin.htm

http://www.esoteric.msu.edu/Beitchman.html

... which might be of interest.  As might be ...

Reilly, Terry.  "Gravity's Rainbow, The Anabaptist
   Rebellions in Germany, 1525-35, and the
   Unfortunate Traveller."  Oklahoma City University
   Law Review, Vol. 24, No. 3 (1999): 705-27.

http://www.law.utexas.edu/lpop/etext/okla/reilly24.htm

--- jbor <jbor at bigpond.com> wrote:
> on 22/2/03 8:41 PM, Terrance at
> lycidas2 at earthlink.net wrote:
> 
> I think _Paradise Lost_ is obviously circumscribed
> by a Christian worldview:

Note also how well Milton's Satan exemplifies point
for point yr so-called "self-fashinoning" ...

Greenblatt, Stephen.  Renaissance Self-Fashioning:
   From More to Shakespeare.  Chicago: U of C P, 1980.

But ...   

> I don't believe _GR_ is (and I'm not sure
> that _Moby Dick_ is either).

Well, circumscribed, maybe, maybe not, but definitely
bruhing--brusquely or otherwise--up against a circle
the center of which is everywhere and the
circumference of which is nowhere in our so-called
Judeo-Christian(-Islamic) Western civilization ...

> I don't see a connection between Blicero and
> Milton's Satan.

And, while my contention here is, when we don't argue
politics, we argue Blicero (which is nontheless
generally to argue politics here by other means ...),
regardless of the ostensible text at hand, neither of
which I want to do right now (hard enough to find
quality time for the stories), I've never been quite
sure, and I don't believe anyone with seemingly strong
feelings on the matter has been quite clear on this,
just how y'all are reading Hauptmann Weissman there,
even if I've almost memorized Terrance's mantra on him ...

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