Fw: Pynchon, Dante and Divine Light

[Mark Kohut]

Here's the further tie-in: to that line in AtD that History is about our
response to light..........(or Who has it exact? )




----- Original Message ----
From: Mark Kohut <markekohut at yahoo.com>
To: pynchon -l <pynchon-l at waste.org>
Sent: Saturday, January 5, 2008 7:00:29 AM
Subject: Re: Fw: Pynchon, Dante and Divine Light


Yes...Clinching, I would say. 
 
So Dante must just have used those philosopers to make the case with reasoning...?



Mark Kohut (markekohut at yahoo.com) wrote:

> IF, the Jesuit priest [sic] who wrote that bit about Dante in his History of
> Philosophy is mostly right, is it possible that whatever was later
> translated as GOD IS LIGHT
> was influenced by Dante's "analysis" since the Bible Dante knew was not
> translated
> into English when he wrote?

"Deus lux est" (in the Vulgata's Latin) doesn't strike me as terribly
ambiguous.

- Michael 


Michael J. Hußmann

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