ATD at the Frankfurter Buchmesse

[robinlandseadel at comcast.net]

Pynchon's take on ritual & religion covers all bases and seems to come from an angle similar to Joseph Campbell's with a bit of "Wake" stirred in as well. I suspect this particular thread in his books—taking up the side of the preterite, the "lost"—has more than a bit to do with family history:

http://journals.cambridge.org/action/displayAbstract?fromPage=online&aid=8545

http://links.jstor.org/sici?sici=0043-5597(199710)3%3A54%3A4%3C795%3ACCOOAT%3E2.0.CO%3B2-%23
 -------------- Original message ----------------------
From: Dave Monroe <monropolitan at yahoo.com>
> Reading Pynchon requires a heavy grounding in
> everything.  Or it requires nothing at all ...
> 
> But it never hurts to know yr Bible when it comes to
> Western Lit'rachure.  Belief optional ...
> 
> --- kelber at mindspring.com wrote:
> 
> > I'd hate to think that reading Pynchon requires a
> > heavy grounding in the Bible.
> 
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