ATD at the Frankfurter Buchmesse

[kelber at mindspring.com]

I've probably absorbed a fair amount of it by virtue of being brought up in "Western civilization," and having a basic grounding in the history of Christianity: the Crusades, Inquisition, Reformation, etc.  My gut feeling is that the original is probably considerably inferior to most of the great works of literature that allude to it.  And also, fuck it, I'm closed-minded where religion is concerned.

Laura

-----Original Message-----
>From: MalignD at aol.com
>Sent: Oct 12, 2006 5:30 PM
>To: pynchon-l at waste.org
>Subject: Re: ATD at the Frankfurter Buchmesse
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><< Coming from a long line of Jewish atheists, I've never had the stomach to 
>read The New Testament. >>
>
>If you read it with a sense of wonder--i.e., how can people actually believe 
>this horseshit--it can be sort of fun.