MDDM Ch. 62 Stig & Zhang

[jbor]

No, I think that the Sami religious belief might be pertinent to the
discussion about the living Earth in Ch. 61, and to the many other examples
of animist cosmology which are represented in Pynchon's work, which is why I
included the sentence in a parenthetic note.

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on 10/7/02 9:45 AM, Doug Millison at millison at online-journalist.com wrote:

> I see.  But you think the nature of the Sami religious belief is important
> in connection with their sounding like "Jacobites" even though it's the
> political connection at work in M&D?
> 
> Where is it again that M&D mentions the Sami people?
> 
> 
> At 9:32 AM +1100 7/10/02, jbor wrote:
>> on 10/7/02 9:25 AM, Doug Millison at millison at online-journalist.com wrote:
>> 
>>> jbor:
>>>> "Swedish Jacobite" (611.15) is in fact apt [...]
>>>> "The Sami religious belief is animistic, believing that everything
>>>> in nature from animals to minerals have a soul.")
>>> 
>>> 
>>> This is the philosophy of the Roman Catholic and Anglican Jacobites?
>> 
>> Er, no. The English Jacobites, like the Scandinavian Sami, were Northerners
>> who had recently lost dominion over their homeland.
>> 
>> best
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