Religious Fundamentalism in Orwell and Pynchon

[jbor]

on 17/5/03 10:54 PM, Toby G Levy wrote:

> And this set me to thinking, where is the evidence of religious
> fundamentalism in the works of Pynchon?

Puritans and Protestants in _GR_. The dodo-hunting Dutch. Quakers and
Jesuits (at least) in _M&D_. The Dutch at the Cape again. Not much about
Islam, though there are bits in _V._

I'm not sure what, exactly, Pynchon means by "the religious wars with which
we have become all too familiar, involving various sorts of fundamentalism".

Ayatollah Khomeini? Pakistan v. India?

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