V2nd - the ecclesiastical history read

[Albert Rolls]

Heresy is more complicated: the Manicheans were heretics. "Everything that 
you appreciate with your senses, all there is in the given world to hold 
dear," including "the touch of a lover" and "desirable strangers," are evil 
for the Manichæan. "'But it's everything that matters,' protested Chick 
Counterfly." Suckling then observes, "That's the choice? Light or pussy? 
What kind of choice is that?" Lindsay, the Chums of Chance member who 
objects to "informality of speech," protests, and Suckling corrects himself: 
"Sorry Lindsay. I meant 'vagina,' of course."


----- Original Message ----- 
From: "David Morris" <fqmorris at gmail.com>
To: "alice wellintown" <alicewellintown at gmail.com>
Cc: "pynchon -l" <pynchon-l at waste.org>
Sent: Thursday, September 23, 2010 9:17 AM
Subject: Re: V2nd - the ecclesiastical history read


Of course, because all heros are rebels, breakers of ranks.  The
opposite of heresy is obedience/acceptance, and how boring is that?

David Morris

On Wed, Sep 22, 2010 at 5:56 PM, alice wellintown
<alicewellintown at gmail.com> wrote:
> The Romantic Aesthetic always includes, first the heretical impulse,
> and then the act of heresy. The "the human heart", as Hawthorne
> describes it in his famous Preface to _The House of the Seven Gables_
> beats a steady rebellion. The Romantics, be they American Scholars
> following in what Whitman describes as the "parade" led by Emerson, or
> French novelists complicit in the "killing of the cathedrals" with
> books and the Gutenberg Press (Hugo's HND), heresy is heresy is their
> religion.