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Nobody wanted to hear about all the Preterite, the many God passes over when he chooses a few for salvation. William argued holiness for these "second Sheep," without whom there'd be no elect. You can bet the Elect in Boston were pissed off about that. And it got worse. William felt that what Jesus was for the elect, Judas Iscariot was for the Preterite. Everything in the Creation has its equal and opposite counterpart. How can Jesus be an exception? could we feel for him anything but horror in the face of the unnatural, the extracreational? Well, if he is the son of man, and if what we feel is not horror but love, then we have to love Judas too. Right? How William avoided being burned for heresy, nobody knows.


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After graduating from high school in 1953 at the age of 16 Pynchon studied engineering physics at Cornell University but left at the end of his second year to serve in the U. In 1958 Pynchon and Cornell classmate Kirkpatrick Sale wrote part or all of a science-fiction musical Minstrel Island which portrayed a dystopian future in which IBM rules the world (Gibbs 1994). In 1957 he returned to Cornell to pursue a degree in English.

After publishing several short stories in the late 1950s and early 1960s he began composing the novels for which he is best known: V. Hailing from Long Island Pynchon served two years in the United States Navy and earned an English degree from Cornell University.

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