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Pynchon seeing the Eucharist as a 'kind' way of enacting the body
 
Pynchon seeing the Eucharist as a 'kind' way of enacting the body
 
and blood of Christ belief in Christianity. A wonderful trope.
 
and blood of Christ belief in Christianity. A wonderful trope.
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'''Death or its ev'ryday Coercions'''...Death's thousand Metaphors'''<br>
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See this theme in Against the Day; all of the day's necessities that are
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against the simple living of life...

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country wife, city wife
Pynchon's life values in evidence? He dislikes cities, seen elsewhere.


Bread & Wine, a kindness of the Almighty
Pynchon seeing the Eucharist as a 'kind' way of enacting the body and blood of Christ belief in Christianity. A wonderful trope.


Death or its ev'ryday Coercions...Death's thousand Metaphors
See this theme in Against the Day; all of the day's necessities that are against the simple living of life...

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