(correction) Why I like Fromm's Behind better than P's Prick

[Terrance]

Terrance wrote:
> 
> Reading Pynchon's fictions its fairly obvious that he too does not write
> attacks on religion (institutionalized, organized, etc.), but shows how
> the compartmentalization of thought makes it impossible 


to recognize




that all
> political order (even atheistic ones) is justified and legitimated
> through symbolic narratives that connect the respective society or
> movement with a larger order of things. The secularization of the
> Western world, one of Modernity's  great achievements, has not silenced
> nor ended the Quest for meaning but has produced the urge to find
> alternative ways to satisfy this existential human need. This need, this
> narrative and all its transcendental meaning manifests itself in the
> social order.
> 
> Like Slothrop in the Streets section , Winston comes upon buildings that
> were once churches.
> 
> What are they worshipping in those houses now?

GR.692  Streets

692.34 ...massive church. But isn't that the Petritor

1984 Part One VIII near the end

"I know that building...a ruin now ... 

Now were talking bombed and altered landscape here folks. 

"It was bombed ... It was church at one time." 

I think Paul M. noted this intertextual.