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

[Michael Bailey]

Bled Welder wrote:

>> What's the role of Jesus/God etc. in Pynchon's work? No doubt something
>> discussed a zillion times.
>>

Miraculous Medal - for me, a highlight of V., borne by Paola, surely a
moral center in her own right...

in GR also although its presence the couple times I noticed it
consists only of a multiple counter-example as to its efficacy and
talk of transcending it like Dumbo abandoning his featther...(or was
that 2nd one somebody on the P-list?)

nice parody of Eliot's "Ash Wednesday" in V. also

Rev Cherrycoke sermonizes to great effect in M&D; more than anywhere
else I get the feeling these represent something close to Pynchon's
considered opinion...

none of the action in "The Secret Integration" takes place in a church
at all, does it?  nor is there any religious reference at all, is
there?

motorcycle gang as a holy order in Vineland

Zoyd talks Frenesi out of getting an abortion in Vineland; Slab talks
Esther into getting one in V.

Ruperta levitates in an Anglican church, I believe, although the
proximate cause is the music

I think Frenesi hears some radio preachers with typically extremist
views somewhere, maybe while driving with Vond or in a motel room
during a tornado warning