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

[Mark Kohut]

yea, yea...............

Reading a lot about TRP  fave T. S. Eliot lately-----and as the lyric goes, "he ain't him", so it might be a lot of Klever Korrespondences---but Eliot could only embrace His Religion, Anglicanism---because it made a deep place for deep sin:
evil......human nature, all of History, a "tradition" back to Original Sin. 



----- Original Message ----
From: Robin Landseadel <robinlandseadel at comcast.net>
To: pynchon-l at waste.org
Sent: Friday, June 5, 2009 5:29:54 PM
Subject: Re: C of L49, mind over matter? Another take; another level?

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.