On 8/6/07, Mark Kohut <markekohut at yahoo.com> wrote: > From your last posted URL link to Durkheim ... Thanks! But here's a question. Traditionally, of course, Pynchon has been taken to have taken up Mircea Eliade's The Sacred and the Profane, esp. in re: The Crying of Lot 49. Durkeheim instead? As well? Interesting ...