M&D - Tyburn Tree 'resurrections'

Terrance F. Flaherty Lycidas at worldnet.att.net
Thu Sep 16 14:08:25 CDT 1999


Yes, and in both cases we are dealing with "resurrection"
without "Our Savior." Rev, may be crazy, visiting ghosts,
being visited by ghosts, a broken remembrance, shored
against a parody of  Eliot's mental wasteland and crimes of
anonymity, but he can still make his political point--era of
Wesley and Whitefield,--Sectarians,--..."

TF

Michael Baum wrote:
> 
> On Thu, 16 Sep 1999 14:45:54 -0400 (EDT), 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).
> 
> Also happened to that other great Western philosopher, Clint Eastwood. Must have been a more common phenomenon than once I thought.
> 
> -maab



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