GRGR(11) - Children learning to die

[Paul Mackin]

Someone who has the power to enhance
man's store of dreams can become a savior. The wounds that men die of lie
in the area between dream and experience. That is where the graves lie
from which they are raised."

Jay H's dadaist quote (below in full) does seem highly appropriate to
the present thread as well as to the Gore-Vidal one. My question is,
if Part 1 concerns DYING of sorts, can we expect RESURRECTION of sorts further along the way?

				P.
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From: 	Jay Herzog[SMTP:jwh7 at axe.humboldt.edu]
Sent: 	Friday, February 28, 1997 5:10 PM
To: 	Paul Mackin
Cc: 	pynchon-l
Subject: 	RE: GRGR(11) - Children learning to die

	I was in the midst of reading Dadaist Hugo Ball's 1916 Zurich
diary and I came across these two passages:
	"In their childhood men envision such clear ideal of themselves
and their world that experience is bound to let them down later. They find
out unexpectedly, and the shock of it is usually so great that they never
lose a certain sensitivity about it. Someone who has the power to enhance
man's store of dreams can become a savior. The wounds that men die of lie
in the area between dream and experience. That is where the graves lie
from which they are raised."

	"The dadaist fights against the agony and the death throes of this
age. Averse to all clever reticence, he cultivates the curiosity of one
who feels joy even at the most questionable forms of rebellion. He knows
that the world of Systems has fallen apart, and that this age with its
insistence on cash payment, has opened a jumble sale of godless
philosophies. Where fear and a bad concience begin for the shopkeeper,
hearty laughter and gentle encouragement begin for the dadaist."