Sexx Laws; WAS: Patrick twisted my arm so now I'm reading Pynchon's latest

[Michael Bailey]

On 11/30/07, Page <page at quesnelbc.com> wrote:
> I may be in an alternate reality--though for years I haven't known what the
> alternatives are--but, Robin, does the first part of your post look
> Calvinist? Is there a connection? And, if so, is it worth anything? Did I
> miss an earlier, relevant post? Should I wear my trousers rolled?
>

(leaping in...)

I was just riffing on a Crowley connection, but
sure, more likely the Scurvhamite passage is a
reductio ad absurdum of Calvinism & the Protestant/predestined/
Elect-preterite-dividing thundering herd of Manifest Destinarians...

in which case, this passage'd point up the fact that
a Protestant sense of goodness doesn't fail gracefully,
unlike say a Catholic one which leads its possessor to
confession regularly and delegates spiritual fatherhood...
(though the Catholic colonialists were also hellacious)

or, like, pointing out a flaw in Protestant theology as grievous
as Darby stumbling over the rope and letting all the hot air out...

oddly enough, a major Plymouth Brethren theorist
(checking w'pedia, they're still around) was a guy
named Darby:
 http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/John_Nelson_Darby


"that's no vernacular, it's a doiby" - Curly