C of L49, mind over matter? Another take; another level?

[Robin Landseadel]

On Jun 5, 2009, at 1:18 PM, Mark Kohut wrote:

> Seeing all the promised religion that never happens in this book  
> this read, yet the 'revelations all around' all the time, I cannot  
> help
> but see TRPs 'Religion' in Cof L49 as a kind of immanence (lower  
> case)....is this Buddhist?  A charged paganism?

Tend to think of religion in CoL49 as cast in a negative light, what  
we see are religion's shadows. The tales of the Tristero has numerous  
suggestions of black magic and bad karma, doubtless kin to the  
disinherited of the novel. The Courier's Tragedy, with it's theater of  
cruelty depictions of the church fits, as does the final scene of the  
novel, set up to echo with church ritual.