M&D preambulatory profferings

[David Morris]

BUT!
I do like to speculate on the many theologies and mythologies that I love
to see in Pynchon's novels.

On Tuesday, January 6, 2015, David Morris <fqmorris at gmail.com> wrote:

> 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
> <javascript:_e(%7B%7D,'cvml','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
>> <javascript:_e(%7B%7D,'cvml','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
>>> <javascript:_e(%7B%7D,'cvml','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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