Fw: Re: Help, IV~~~Mexican families set up their weekend pitches???

[Mark Kohut]

--- On Thu, 8/27/09, Mark Kohut <markekohut at yahoo.com> wrote:

> From: Mark Kohut <markekohut at yahoo.com>
> Subject: Re: Help, IV~~~Mexican families set up their weekend pitches???
> To: "Dan Hansong" <dhs_abraham at hotmail.com>, "John Carvill" <johncarvill at gmail.com>
> Cc: pynchon-l-digest at waste.org
> Date: Thursday, August 27, 2009, 11:23 AM
> Alice asked (of P?; of IV?, dunno):
> 
> Where is the Church?
> 
> Reading all the velvet picture links that Dave sent one
> learns this:
> 
> (but first I will say I read those picture as kitsch with
> heart...P loving
> the love of their sentimentality and cheesiness---you?---
> as well as how they turned from religious to
> celebrity-filled which is
> a statement, ain't it?)
> 
> One learns this: it seems the roots go way back to the
> Orthodox strain of
> Christianity, which, you will recall, was heavily a part of
> AtD...
> The strain, historically many argue, that gets closest to
> JC hisself.....direct use of his language NOT JC's story as
> told by the Gospelists............
> 
> 
> 
> --- On Thu, 8/27/09, John Carvill <johncarvill at gmail.com>
> wrote:
> 
> > From: John Carvill <johncarvill at gmail.com>
> > Subject: Re: Help, IV~~~Mexican families set up their
> weekend pitches???
> > To: "Dan Hansong" <dhs_abraham at hotmail.com>
> > Cc: pynchon-l-digest at waste.org
> > Date: Thursday, August 27, 2009, 10:49 AM
> > It means 'pitches' as in places they
> > set up their stalls to sell things.
> > 
> > > Out of the vans and into the calm early mornings
> would
> > come sofa-width
> > > Crucifixions and Last Supers..."
> > 
> > This is the velvet picture vendors unloading their
> wares
> > from the van.
> > 
> > Cheers
> > J
> > 
> 
> 
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