A little Against the Day semi-religious day to celebrate?
Richard Ryan
himself at richardryan.com
Fri Jan 7 13:59:29 CST 2011
This is an interesting question. I'd say certainly not a Christian -
but almost as clearly not an atheist. A pagan, a believer in chthonic
forces, a Bloomian neo-gnostic daemon worshiper...
On Fri, Jan 7, 2011 at 2:51 PM, Mark Kohut <markekohut at yahoo.com> wrote:
> We seem to know from his books that TRP likes Christmas...as happy time.
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> We think he is probalby no longer a Christian. See books, passim.
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> But in Against the Day he dives furthest trying to get to The Word itself
> through the Orthodox, Coptic, Byzantine Christian tradition, which claims to
> be unbroken---when he tests Christianity at all......
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> So, Merry Against the Day Christmas?
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Richard Ryan
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