Enough Vollmann Bashing!: A Plea

[Jonathon Sturgeon]

The New York Times Book Review
12 March 1989, p. 29

[image: http://www.themodernword.com/borges/cleardot.GIF]Our thanks to you
and to Marianne Wiggins for recalling those of us who write to our duty as
heretics, for reminding us again that power is as much our sworn enemy as
unreason, for making us all look braver, wiser, more useful than we often
think we are. We pray for your continuing good health, safety and lightness
of spirit.

-- By Thomas Pynchon

Heretic?  Gnostics were Christian Heretics.  Pray?  Spirit?  I think anyone
who disputes this claim, one that I sense but am not married to, has the
responsibility of explaining who he's praying to and how.

I'd like to get a hold of _The Gnostic Pynchon_ by Dwight Eddins.  In the
book he apparently argues for a Gnostic framework, which then, he argues,
leads into a sort of anti-Gnostic, Orphic framework.  Anyone know anything
about this book?  I found a review on JSTOR.

There is a fragment from the Derveni Papyrus: Close the door you
uninitiated.  Sounds like (among other things) the end of _Crying_.
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