The Missionary Position

[Joe Allonby]

Wait a minute? I thought that March was census month for the Romans? We're
not celebrating the birth of anybody. It's Yule. Saturnalia.

'course, I don't believe in any of that either.

It's a nice holiday though, once the shopping's done.


On 12/23/06, Ande <andekgrahn at olympus.net> wrote:
>
> Dear friend tom,
>
> I happily offer my heathen heart to all attempts to proselytize in the
> pynchon-l wilds, but please please please call of your brethren in the
> Andaman Islands--leave the Sentinelese alone.
>
>
> Best Wishes on the celebration of your Saviours birth, and many happy
> returns of the day.
>
> Ande
>
>
>
> Joe Allonby wrote:
>
> >(A plain text version of Original_HTML1.html follows):
> >
> >   Yeah, it's a bit over the top. But if it isn't, I'll get a kick out of
> >   flexing my blasphemy  chops in the hopes that it might actually offend
> a
> >   real live bible-thumping hypocrite.
> >
> >   On 12/22/06, andrew walser <[1]andrew.walser at sbcglobal.net> wrote:
> >
> >     Will Layman <[2]WillLayman at comcast.net> wrote:
> >
> >   I've got to say that this sounds ("The Gravity Book", c'mon . . .)
> like a
> >   holiday goof.
> >
> >
> >
> >          I would say our evangelist's posting has holiday goof written
> all
> >   over it.  "I have studied this Pynchon phenomenon" struck me as a
> little
> >   improbable, but "the google" absolutely clinched it.
> >
> >
> >
> >                                                               Andrew
> Walser
> >
> >References (WARNING: clicking these links may not be safe)
> >
> >   1. mailto:andrew.walser at sbcglobal.net
> >   2. mailto:WillLayman at comcast.net
> >
> >
> >
>
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