very sideways--if at all---related to Thomas Pynchon

[Mark Kohut]

There was a 20th French intellectual who wrote some highly acclaimed books
on subjects we know Thomas read about by others. His name was Jacques
Ellul.
The most famous book is THE TECHNOLOGICAL SOCIETY. ...(no clue TRP ever
read him, of course) but.........a couple connections.....He was a
Christian and one
of his last books, put together from some of his writings by others and
after his death was called
The Humiliation of the Word Paperback – October 14, 2021
by  Jacques Ellul
<https://www.amazon.com/Jacques-Ellul/e/B001ILM8UU/ref=dp_byline_cont_book_1>
  (Author), Joyce Main Hanks
<https://www.amazon.com/s/ref=dp_byline_sr_book_2?ie=UTF8&field-author=Joyce+Main+Hanks&text=Joyce+Main+Hanks&sort=relevancerank&search-alias=books>
  (Translator), Ted Lewis
<https://www.amazon.com/s/ref=dp_byline_sr_book_3?ie=UTF8&field-author=Ted+Lewis&text=Ted+Lewis&sort=relevancerank&search-alias=books>
  (Contributor), & 1 more
<https://www.amazon.com/Humiliation-Word-Jacques-Ellul/dp/1532642563/ref=pd_scr_dp_alt1_d_d_sccl_3_2/141-4957400-1644107?pd_rd_w=1gdZF&content-id=amzn1.sym.2518befe-f203-4b06-b73c-15190b673369&pf_rd_p=2518befe-f203-4b06-b73c-15190b673369&pf_rd_r=3Z2RXB3SYA7XPJKNDX2D&pd_rd_wg=I4WnD&pd_rd_r=fccc4fa9-d29c-40ef-b7c1-74df2ad4a5cd&pd_rd_i=1532642563&psc=1#>

A major theme of this book---*Propaganda* is his second most famous
title---could be summed up by
this P-lister as Pynchon's showing how modern media, American society, does
humiliate the Word,
which maybe isn't The Word any longer, so to speak.....

and he also wrote a book called *Anarchism and Christianity* in which
anarchism---that strain of still-to-be determined
meaning in TRP's work-- is (simply) defined as non-violent resistance to
authority and which Jacques finds to be very strong in
The Bible.....