The Rev'd's Character

[David Casseres]

Henry sez
>In any case, the Rev (Rebbe) is certainly not a bad priest, as in V 
>or Drugstore Cowboy. There seems to be a bit of the devil's advocate 
>(DA) in him, though, perhaps a little like the proffesionally 
>doubting DA in dream in GR.

A-and that preachy aside of his at the end of Ch. 8 is a corker.  The one 
where that *oven as a transforming principle* shows up again, just like 
in Gravity's Rainbow, except now, instead of the witch's Kinderofen of 
war, death, and perversity, it's the Easter oven, transforming dough into 
bread, the slaughtered Lamb of God into a feast for the faithful (but not 
for Mason), death into life.  A marvelously compressed little passage.  
I'm gonna go re-read it tonight.


Cheers,
David