MMM / thanks! / NP TR and DFW

[Michael Bailey]

On 3/11/06, Paul Mackin <paul.mackin at verizon.net> wrote:

> > http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Miraculous_Medal mentioned in Vineland as
> > a nice nod to GR - some of this Catholic lore is Really interesting!
> > I finally found it in Vineland: p 337 but now, to find it in GR?
>
> It's in that  Christmas interlude where Roger and Jessica "come upon a church." p 135
>
> Listed along with other symbols of hope (including Dumbo's magic feather) in a world mired in War.
>

 Thanks!  There's a site amm.org, where I signed the guest book and
apparently will be mailed a free one, they also have upgrades

The medals and Dumbo's feather, and other relics (pieces of bone!)
clutched in the churchgoers' hands underscore the role of faith and
hope in wartime...as does their going to church at all,  and that
Roger and Jessica go there shows their little double-bubble of
non-War-living trying to unite with other souls who have extra-War
hopes - "For the moment anyway, no longer who the Caesars say you
are." (138 in my non-standard PGB GR, probably 136 in the other one)

Tom Robbins in one of his recent books expatiates on the 3 visions of
St Bernadette, one of which has been kept secret by the Vatican to
this very day

Ok, so my friend is trying to learn more about German culture, and is
a WWII buff as well, so I told him, "you ought to read GR" and he says
ok, I've heard that was good...
and went out and bought a new copy (couldn't find one used, he said)
-- "that was easy," I thought
so we go bike riding today and afterwards chilling at his place, he
says, "by the way, you might like this"
and plops a copy of Infinite Jest down on the table
it's got a bunch of footnotes about drugs, and some previous reader
left a page of notepaper in it saying "I gave up at page 126"


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"Acceptance, forgiveness, love - now that's a philosophy of life!"
-Woody Allen, as Broadway Danny Rose