M&D - Tyburn Tree 'resurrections' 'resurrections'

[Paul Mackin]

On Sun, 19 Sep 1999, Mark Wright AIA wrote:

> Howdy
> 
> --- rj <rjackson at mail.usyd.edu.au> wrote: (in part)
> 
> > I guess I meant primarily that orthodox (as in "common or garden")
> > Christianity in all its variants will not entertain the possibility
> > of
> > were-beavers, sentient light bulbs, cyborgs &c, as Pynchon does....
> 
> Even I, atheist that I am, find myself bemused....
>  
> Pynchon is crafting fiction, not "entertain(ing) the possibility of
> were-beavers" and the like.  He doesn't believe in the reality of his
> fictional creations, or expect his readers to either.  Fiction is
> fiction, perhaps most vividly so to its author.  Scripture is something
> else, both in the intent of its authors ("Author?") and in the way
> believers attend to it.


And apropos of my post of a minute ago this goes for whether we are in a
bombed out building or a bombed out mind (recalling Tony Tanner's famous
characterization).
			
				P. (not even an athiest--don't understand
					the question)