M&D - Tyburn Tree 'resurrections'

[Doug Millison]

At 2:45 PM -0400 9/16/99, Michael Crowley wrote:
>And the Reverend himself starts off his tale with that whole subjunctive
>"If I had been hung and then resurrected into a new dispensation" type
>thing in chapter one (don't have the book in front of me).

"Had I been the first churchman of modern times to be swung from Tyburn
Tree [. . .] had I then been 'resurrected' into an entirely new Knoweldge
of the terms of being, in which Our Savior,-- strange to say in that era of
Wesley and Whitefield,-- though present, would not have figur'd as
pre-eminently as with most Sectarians,-- howbeit,-- lI should closely
resemble the nomadic Parson you behold today. . . ." -- MD pp. 8-9

That would be just the first of several references to resurrection in M&D.
Don't know them all chapter and verse, but do recall one late in the novel,
when Dixon's nursing his gout he speaks specifically, perhaps
sarcastically, about his hopes for bodily resurrection. Life after death
seems an important issue in M&D -- Rebekah's ghost is a rather tangible
example -- as it also does in GR.

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