M&D preambulatory profferings

[David Morris]

Speculating on his religious history, inner and outer, is something I'd
rather not engage in either.  Even worse, for me, is Hollander's
speculation that a deep, jealous resentment of his family's financial
decline motivates his writing.  I hate that shit.

David Morris

On Tue, Jan 6, 2015 at 4:06 PM, Monte Davis <montedavis49 at gmail.com> wrote:

> Jules Siegel, in the infamous (to me) Playboy piece: "He went to Mass and
> confessed, though to what would be a mystery." Plus a few snippets in
> Hollander's essays and elsewhere, none enough IMHO to discriminate between
> 'devout,' 'observant,' and 'obliging his mother.'
>
> Further this deponent sayeth not, as my general preference to respect
> Pynchon's chosen level of privacy -- and bemusement at attempts to
> penetrate it -- is reinforced here by a faded WASP-bourgeois sense that
> other people's religion is none of my business. Ridiculous, really, as I've
> bloviated on his every deepest and most important thought re first and last
> things that might (or might not) be revealed in the fiction -- but there it
> is.
>
> On Tue, Jan 6, 2015 at 4:30 PM, Mark Kohut <mark.kohut at gmail.com> wrote:
>
>> a youthful friend,---was it Jerry Siegal?---said he used to go to Mass
>> everyday.
>> Right? anyone, anyone, Bueller?
>>
>> On Tue, Jan 6, 2015 at 3:27 PM, David Morris <fqmorris at gmail.com> wrote:
>> > MK:  "Pynchon was very religiously Catholic, into college we know."
>> >
>> > How do we know this?
>> -
>> Pynchon-l / http://www.waste.org/mail/?list=pynchon-l
>>
>
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