Enough Vollmann Bashing!: A Plea

[Bryan Snyder]

Have a copy of that very book coming in the mail.  I think it's available
via Amazon used books, I got mine through AbeBooks.com.

 

Looking forward to it!

 

From: owner-pynchon-l at waste.org [mailto:owner-pynchon-l at waste.org] On Behalf
Of Jonathon Sturgeon
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Subject: Re: Enough Vollmann Bashing!: A Plea

 

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

 http://www.themodernword.com/borges/cleardot.GIF
<file:///C:\Users\SCHOLA~1\AppData\Local\Temp\msohtmlclip1\01\clip_image001.
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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