Re: Mike Jing question on Cyprian’s skepticism

[Joseph Tracy]

I think R S’s paraphrase is a clear accurate version of the intended meaning.

Cyprian finds himself genuinely moved by the

hymns issuing from the churches on campus - his

former skepticism now is aroused (addressed)

only by the very worst of the worst of the

church music -

such as Filtham.


All the other church music makes him

sincerely worshipful. (An attitude described by

Pynchon in the preceding wonderfully

convoluted sentences, full of caveats

and paradox)


This foreshadows his much later devotional turn in becoming a monk, or nun…