Pynchon lit.

[Madeleine Maudlin]

My opinion of Pynchon's stature as a Christian, is that he's not.  Mainly
because I think that as a rule of thumb erudite literary geniuses are not
Christians, Jews, etc.  Ever.  (Even though Judaism is more sane than the
infinite lunacies of Christianity.)  If a Reverend Cherrycoke narrates one
of Pynchon's big novels, eg., it's because he was poisoned by being raised
in a Catholic household.

Speaking of which! I just came across this most excellent tidbit of
Judeo-Christianity information the other day, and I wonder if you know it?
 I am given to understand that it is common knowledge.  This I learned
while investigating one of my new projects--who invented Jesus and penned
the Gospels.

Turns out that the things of the Gospels mimick or reflect things of the
Torah, or at least they have Jesus's life paralleling Moses?  So you have
for example:

Old Testament
Gen.45-50 Joseph goes to Egypt
Ex.1 Pharoah massacres boys
Ex.4 "All the men are dead which sought thy life."
Ex.12 From Egypt to Israel
Ex.14 Passing through water (baptism)
Ex.16 In the wilderness "Tempted thy bread"
Ex.17 "Do not tempt God"
Ex.32 "Worship only God"

Matthew
2:13 Joseph goes to Egypt
2:16 Herod massacres boys
2:20 "They are dead which sought the young child's life"
2:21 From Egypt to Israel
3:13 Baptism (passing through water)
4:4 In the wilderness "Tempted by bread"
4:7 "Do not tempt God"
4:10 "Worship only God"


On Sat, Jul 21, 2012 at 8:01 PM, Alex Colter <recoignishon at gmail.com> wrote:

> O-oh I was gonna make a thread asking for much of the same thing. I am
> still tryin' to find Frank Kermode's *Genesis of Secrecy*, which features
> a lengthy discussion of CoL49 alongside such works as the Gospel of Mark,
> after that I'll have to look into some of these.
>
>
> On Sat, Jul 21, 2012 at 7:11 PM, Dave Monroe <against.the.dave at gmail.com>wrote:
>
>> On Sat, Jul 21, 2012 at 11:43 AM, Keith Davis <kbob42 at gmail.com> wrote:
>>
>> > Anyone familiar with Levine's "Mindful Pleasures", essays on Mr. P?
>>
>> http://archive.org/details/mindfulpleasures00levi
>>
>
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