Enough Vollmann Bashing!: A Plea

[David Casseres]

Prayer isn't necessarily addressed to a Who.

On 4/25/07, Jonathon Sturgeon <caterpillarheart at gmail.com> wrote:
>
> 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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