Pynchon lit.

[Alex Colter]

And while I certainly agree with you concerning your rule of thumb you are
very wrong about there not being "infinite lunacies" in Judaism, it
certainly has its share.  I tend to be more inclined to study the Zohar and
the early Kabbalists or the works of Valentinus and Christian Gnostics
these days, and I think there are good many readers and writers who possess
their own unique 'Gnosis', not necessarily Pynchon, but Borges, Blake,
Shelley, among others...


On Mon, Jul 23, 2012 at 10:44 AM, Alex Colter <recoignishon at gmail.com>wrote:

> 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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