GRGR Nothingness (was Re: Pynchon as propaganda)

[Paul Mackin]

Addendum to my earlier morning post.

Just googled Paradise Lost and didn't  find "nothingness" anywhere in it

A lot of "nothings" however.

But, yes,about the imagery.

I just would like to reiterate that it's not so much the presence of the
word "nothingness" in Christian writing (though Keith has shown THAT to
be fairly prodigious) but the idea that if we came from nothing, we are
headed toward nothingness.

P.


On Mon, 2003-04-07 at 08:34, Paul Mackin wrote:
> On Mon, 2003-04-07 at 00:42, davemarc wrote:
> > From: Paul Mackin <paul.mackin at verizon.net>
> > 
> > > So far, nothingness seems to mean a lack of God's grace.
> > >
> > > Nothingness is the Christian 'Other.'
> > >
> > Isn't this consistent with Dostoevski's portrayal of Svidrigailov in Crime
> > and Punishment...and with some of the (religious) imagery in Paradise Lost?
> 
> I'd say so. Svidrigailov freely opts for nothingness. A free
> existentialist man.
> 
> Doestoevki is theism in it's most extreme form. In his awareness of the
> nothingness without God.
> 
> If there is no God, all is permitted.
> 
> And if we come out of nowhere we are headed for oblivion. Don't know it
> he said this or was it someone else but it represents his position
> perfectly I think..
> 
> P.
> 
>