MDDM ch.67: "Yet, does it live" (657.13)

[Terrance]

Doug Millison wrote:
> 
> Or, you could prove your point with examples from the novel.
> I don't mean to be argumentative, but this is one of the weak points of
> your discussion here on Pynchon-L.
> It doesn't really matter, of course.  Read M&D as you wish and make the
> arguments you wish to make here.  But I do observe that you're quick to ask
> for chapter and verse when somebody disagrees with you, and you're quite
> slow to provide same to support your own points -- I have to agree with
> jbor on that point.
> It doesn't make a bit of difference, in the final analysis.
> On that Christian tip, "do unto others as you would have them do unto you"
> is still good advice, imo.


Hmmmmmm, but I've provided  examples from the text to support my point.
My point is that Dixon never wavers on matters of the spirit. 

You have provided none. You have asked that I provide examples to
disprove your unsupported claim. 

The examples I have provided thus far include his talk with Mason about
grace at page 101. He says, early in the novel that he is following
Fox's teachings page 38, but that he is no longer technically a Quaker.
page 43

He is constantly reminding Mason that he (Mason) is slipping into a
Deistic view of the world and god--The example we have been discussing,
where Mason, with uncertainty, points up to his god and heaven. 

I also mentioned other examples, the Jolly Pitman retrospective, the
trip on the coal boat, in contrast, Mason's talk with his father about
bread and transubstantiation.