M&D preambulatory profferings

[Joseph Tracy]

I too am unconvinced by this speculation and may even hate that shit.
On Jan 6, 2015, at 5:16 PM, David Morris 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.
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> David Morris
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> 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.'
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> 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.         
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> 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?
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> 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?
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