Pynchon lit.

[Alex Colter]

I think you're in the wrong thread....? A-and Cherrycoke is certainly not a
Catholic, even displaying a great deal of 'Gnostic' tendencies.

On Mon, Jul 23, 2012 at 10:38 AM, Madeleine Maudlin <
madeleinemaudlin at gmail.com> wrote:

> 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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