AtD blurb - "false" religiosity?

[David Morris]

On 8/17/06, Chris Broderick <elsuperfantastico at yahoo.com> wrote:
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> Pynchon put it well when he said that intelligence is about learning the shape of one's own ignorance.

Where did he say that?

>I'm a happy atheist, and I don't think I'd bring anything to the
table in terms of discerning "false" from "true" religions.

Pynchon didn't say anything about "false religions."  He said "false
religiousity."  There is a world of difference between the two.

> Someone (I think it was Keith, though in the tangle of
> the digest, it's hard to tell) said:
>
> Why would a man of his talent be so OBVIOUSLY ironic, huh?
>
> Pynchon doesn't exactly avoid the obvious.  Consider all of the silly puns, slapstick and schtick in his  books (Joaquin Stick?!)  So just because it is unsubtle doesn't mean it ain't Pynchon.

I gotta agree with you there.  But Keith's larger argument is that
Pynchon wouldn't waste his time on a work primarily meant as a
commentary on current events, and I fully agree.

David