MDDM ch. 68 "yet these do live..." (660.20)

[Bandwraith at aol.com]

Being a Goddess, I guess, she does as she pleases. At
any rate, my reference to her transitory materiality-
i.e., while being observed as a mere planet crossing
the face of the sun, was meant metaphorically.
That makes makes me wonder, however, if there 
isn't something metaphorical about the material world 
in general, vis a vis, the spiritual- reversing the "as
above so below" litany. But If material existence is a
metaphor for the spiritual (or versa vice), considering
the pynchonian metaphysics, where lie's the lie?


In a message dated 8/5/02 11:38:01 PM, pynchonoid at yahoo.com writes:

<< s it really because they're in the presence of the
Goddess that the two men might reach out for each
other, or might it be something like the soldiers in
the WWI trenches that Pynchon describes in GR, who
took some comfort in each other's human presence in
the face of danger. Mason and Dixon are, to a certain
degree, even in the heart of the American wilderness,
manipulated by forces the magnitude of which and whose
true intentions they can hardly imagine. (I'm not
saying you're wrong, just offering another way to
think about it.) >>

But they are insulated from time and space at the
mid-point of the river; "upon a raft in a boundless
body of water." Why not, as well, from "forces the 
magnitude of which and whose true intentions 
they can hardly imagine," a sort of metaphorical 
meissner effect.

That in contrast with their ride north from Maryland,
on the York Road, where "they feel cover'd with
small beings crawling and plucking ev'rywhere,
neither kindly Remebrancers, nor wicked Spirits."
[700]


--- Bandwraith at aol.com wrote:
> So says the Ice man w/r/t "the ghosters," as if 
> to echo the Beet farmer, and remind us once again of
> just 
> how far from any "German Plain" and the usual means 
> of control M&D are, in this American Woods- where
> the 
> spiritual, like the Goddess in transit, is becoming
> material.
> 
> And where Dixon, reduced to muttering, seems not so
> eager 
> to use his bread lure, but instead reaches for
> Mason.
> 


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