V2nd - chapter 11 - more examples (fatherly interjections)

[alice wellintown]

Michael Bailey,

Thank you. I take back what I said about Fausto's not moving me.
Or maybe it is you who so moves me?
Anyways, there are only 4 Faustos (Aristotle's 4 Causes, but Aquinas
adds 1), so the Umoved Mover may be in the mix afterall.

As Mark intimates, Pynchon's interest in Chicago School may be deeper
than we suspect; that Dewey, that McKeon, that Booth & Co., to
Aquinas and Augustine and to Aristotle.

For in him we live, and move, and have our being; as certain also of
your own poets have said, For we are also his offspring.
-Paul

God id not a rock, nor the rock God. There is a soul in every stone,
in every grain of sand.

GLORY be to God for dappled things—
  For skies of couple-colour as a brinded cow;
    For rose-moles all in stipple upon trout that swim;
Fresh-firecoal chestnut-falls; finches’ wings;
  Landscape plotted and pieced—fold, fallow, and plough;         5
    And áll trádes, their gear and tackle and trim.

All things counter, original, spare, strange;
  Whatever is fickle, freckled (who knows how?)
    With swift, slow; sweet, sour; adazzle, dim;
He fathers-forth whose beauty is past change:         10
                  Praise him.








On Wed, Nov 24, 2010 at 9:21 PM, Michael Bailey
<michael.lee.bailey at gmail.com> wrote:
> because I do not want
> because I do not want to  find myself thinking like Stencil,
> cold-heartedly pursuing traces of V.
> or reading Chapter 11 strictly as a memoir....