MD3PAD 433-435

[mikebailey at speakeasy.net]

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> From: Toby G Levy [mailto:tobylevy at juno.com]
> Subject: MD3PAD 433-435
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>         Squire Haligast has joined the party and makes pronouncements
> about the importance of iron.   I must admit I don't quite understand
> what Haligast is supposed to represent in the novel.  Clearly Pynchon
> means to indicate something in Haligast's cryptic pronouncements, but
> what?
> 

it was suggested the Learned English Dog figured Jesus.
Haligast if my etymology isn't wide of the Mark, modernizes to something like "Holy Ghost"
(who over the wan world broods, with ah bright wings*)
"They are Lads," says the Squire, "having a dream together.  No harm."


or as Hopkins actually better put it "Because the Holy Ghost over the bent World broods with warm breast and with ah! bright wings." Gerard Manly Hopkins