VL-IV: Chap 10 - Krishna

[Mark Kohut]

Laura,

Yes, you have a disciplined and articulate set of distinctions we all should use.
One cannot extend the meaning of "religion' effectively as far as I did, I now say.

Even Buddhism--part of TRPs 'values"?--has been called an anti-religion in some ways.

Mark



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From: "kelber at mindspring.com" <kelber at mindspring.com>
To: pynchon-l at waste.org
Sent: Wednesday, February 18, 2009 10:18:52 AM
Subject: Re: VL-IV: Chap 10 - Krishna

Religion and philosophy may ask a lot of the same questions but that doesn't mean they come up with the same answers.  And if the history of humans is saturated with religion that doesn't mean we have to be religious to talk or think about human history.

Laura

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>From: Mark Kohut <markekohut at yahoo.com>
>Sent: Feb 18, 2009 9:51 AM
>To: kelber at mindspring.com, pynchon-l at waste.org
>Subject: Re: VL-IV: Chap 10 - Krishna
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>When one's fiction is concerned with Man's place in the cosmos, in History--
>History saturated with religion always---isn't it by definition religious?
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>MK
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>----- Original Message ----
>From: "kelber at mindspring.com" <kelber at mindspring.com>
>To: pynchon-l at waste.org
>Sent: Tuesday, February 17, 2009 9:35:17 PM
>Subject: Re: VL-IV: Chap 10 - Krishna
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>Examples?
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>>From: David Morris <fqmorris at gmail.com>
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>>One of Pynchon's over-arching explorations is that of origins of
>>order/patterns/meaning in the universe.  Are they inherent (existent
>>apart from man, and "discovered" or "revealed"), or are they invented?
>> Or both?  This is very much a religious question, and thus, I think,
>>ALL of Pynchon's novels are steeped in religious exploration.
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>>David Morris
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>>On Tue, Feb 17, 2009 at 4:49 PM,  <kelber at mindspring.com> wrote:
>>> I have to confess to a total mental block towards anything remotely religious or spiritual.  Still, the majority of TRP's themes don't fall into these categories, which explains why I'm such a Pynchon fan(atic).
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