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[Mark Kohut]

nice....

So the whole history of Judeo-Christianity falls under the overarching 
metaphor...Wider symbolic metaphor than V. 

As deep or deeper regarding Golden Bough lens turned on the anthropology of 
religious belief in the West..


 



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From: "edmoorester at gmail.com" <edmoorester at gmail.com>
To: pynchon-l at waste.org
Sent: Sun, April 10, 2011 4:39:46 PM
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TR 

I get the impression Judaism was in part a streamlined monotheism meme that 
spread relatively well 

drawing from various tribal myths 

. . .then a "copy" or Jewish cult aka Christianity/Catholicism arose (rejecting 
certain aspects of "original") 


. . .then a "copy" called Protestantism arose (rejecting certain aspects of 
"original") 


. . .also a "copy" came about called Islam (uhh I am nervous about mentioning 
that one) 


Prophets typically hate phonies so Gaddis has that quality 

Just before GR's balloon scene (cannot find my copy right now) Pynchon goes into 
some detail on his 

family's involvement with the Salem witch trials and I bet some of those 
accusers considered themselves 

prophets 

ed
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