pynchon-l-digest V2 #4668

[Michael Bailey]

> From: Toby G Levy
> Subject: MD3PAD 85-87

> Dixon tells Wicks that he might have to masquerade as non-clergy to get aboard
> a ship out of Capetown.

specifically, that many shipowners on the India routes built their
ships "one tun" less than a legal limit beyond which they would have
been constrained by British law to have a ship's chaplain

I wonder why they objected so much?  Another mouth to feed, with
exemption from all the actual nautical tasks?

sidelight in the news: recently the Church of England has apologized
for its role in the slave trade
let's see, that's after 2000 years of Christianity...
would it be safe to say that religious tradition does not change rapidly?


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