M&D - Tyburn Tree 'resurrections'

[rj]

Mike 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).
> 

Yes, it's that subjunctive mood which is being resurrected in *M&D*.
And, it's not spiritual resurrection per se but the *possibility* of
such resurrections that Pynchon is representing, at all times.

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