Bible thumpers, old and newuaker, Catholic,

[malignd at aol.com]

<< For starters, because contemporary authors as diversely brilliant as 
Tony Kushner, Thomas Pynchon and Michael Chabon have all drawn on 
kabbalistic myth and imagery in their work. Kushner's angels; Pynchon's 
use of the Qlippoth, or "Shells of the Dead"; Chabon's appropriation of 
the avenging Golem of Prague in "The Amazing Adventures of Kavalier and 
Clay" -- all derive, if not from the Zohar and other kabbalistic texts 
themselves, then from more accessible books by the late 20th century 
Kabbalah revivalist Gershom Scholem. Just as you don't have to be a 
Christian to appreciate the Bible as literature, you don't have to be 
Jewish to appreciate Kabbalah.>>

To "draw on" is not to believe in, which was pretty much the entirety 
of my initial point.

<<If certain themes appear repeatedly in an Author's books, portrayed 
in a certain light, the inferences one draws from those repeated 
leimotivs is that the author is making a rather particular point. >>

"... the inferences one draws ..."  Make that the inferences some might 
draw.  This sort of mystical mumbo-jumbo is one of many bits of 
business Pynchon recycles, all sorts of things, for reasons I can only 
guess at.
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