"resurrection of the body"

[Paul Mackin]

On Thu, 2004-10-07 at 12:50, pynchonoid wrote:
> ... in his review of Garcia Marquez' _Love in the Time
> of Cholera_:
> 
> http://www.themodernword.com/pynchon/pynchon_essays_cholera.html
> 



Thanks.

One way to give some idea of what Eagleton is about in After Theory
would be to say:

if the world were somehow inhabited by St Francises (of Assisi)
Socialism would come to the world;

or, alternatively, if Socialism were in the world we would all be St.
Francises.

Reminds me (somewhat but not completely out of context) of that great
movie line in which Amy Robinson's character sez to Harvey Keitel's
character: St. Francis didn't run numbers.




> [...] This novel is also revolutionary in daring to
> suggest that vows of love made under a presumption of
> immortality -- youthful idiocy, to some -- may yet be
> honored, much later in life when we ought to know
> better, in the face of the undeniable. This is,
> effectively, to assert the resurrection of the body,
> today as throughout history an unavoidably
> revolutionary idea. Through the ever-subversive medium
> of fiction, Garca Mrquez shows us how it could all
> plausibly come about, even -- wild hope -- for
> somebody out here, outside a book, even as inevitably
> beaten at, bought and resold as we all must have
> become if only through years of simple residence in
> the injuring and corruptive world. [...]
> 
> It's also in _Mason & Dixon_. 
> 
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