M&D - Tyburn Tree 'resurrections'

[rj]

Mark Wright (AIA) scoffs:

> Pynchon is crafting fiction, not "entertain(ing) the possibility of
> were-beavers" and the like.  

Actually, I disagree with this. Please elaborate on your distinction.

> He doesn't believe in the reality of his
> fictional creations, or expect his readers to either.  

Quite right. He doesn't *believe*, or *expect* his readers to believe
anything. He simply asks us to "entertain the possibility" of this or
that in the fictional world he has created, (albeit a world not unlike
our own in many respects).

> Fiction is

text.

> Fiction is
> fiction

(Rose is a rose is a rose is a rose.)

> Fiction is
> fiction, perhaps most vividly so to its author.

James? Tolkien? Jack London? Fitzgerald? Joyce? Danielle Steele?

> 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.

So, they weren't Bible *stories* after all?

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