Gravity's Son/Mason and Son/Against the Son

[Paul Mackin]

On 3/4/2012 6:59 AM, Bled Welder wrote:
> Thinking about the greatness of Jim Morrison for a moment, I found
> myself thinking of Jesus.
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> I've read 200 of AtD, 150 of GR, and 100 of MD recently. I don't recall
> any mention of religion, or Jesus, etc., items for discussion in that
> vein. Although maybe it might, wait, the uneducated half in MD, is it
> Mason or Dixon, the English chap, isn't he Christian?
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> What's the role of Jesus/God etc. in Pynchon's work? No doubt something
> discussed a zillion times.
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> What's the number of Christians and otherwise religious people in these
> sacred Pynchon vaults? Is this a fundamentally Christian list of people
> here?
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> Does Pynchon have religion? I would very much like to know that if he
> is! Not like, math and physics type religion, but like
> Christianity/Kabbalah sortsa thing--

He adapts Christian notions--in a kind of reverse mode--to explain the 
condition of mankind (Us)

Poor preterite souls.

The passed over.

Also, he uses "resurrection of the body" to suggest the possibility of 
some kind of salvation.

The few things I can think of off the top of my head.




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