Enough Vollmann Bashing!: A Plea

[Jonathon Sturgeon]

I know.  I don't believe in a personal God either.  Sorry for the
insensitivity/lack of clarity.

On 4/26/07, David Casseres <david.casseres at gmail.com> wrote:
>
> 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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