The Burial of the Dead

[Michael Bailey]

(sent first, mistakenly, to alice only)

 alice wellintown wrote:
> Carvill wrote,
>

but in actual fact, Bailey wrote (mike bailey, that is)

> d) then there's the detail on the numerous churches in Jeshimon,
> apparently none of them socially activist,
> and having no effect on the surrounding miasma...while this certainly
> fits with the militaristic Right's courting of the religious Right, it
> also
> fits in with churchly impotence against injustice thru the centuries -
> or perhaps is meant as a sidelong commentary on such...
>
>
> -----

but had serious misgivings after stating that anyway,
as there are important evidences to the contrary, and this
does not seem to be Pynchon's purport either...

the specific extant Churches in Jeshimon hold no
allure for the sojourning Deuce, or Sloat, and Webb is beyond
their reach at this point though as you mention, that valence
shell is filled in him with his brand of unionism



- "I believe in God, and I believe that God, believes in Claude,
that's me" - Claude Henry Bukowski ("Hair")