V2nd - the ecclesiastical history read

[David Morris]

Heresy is as varied and ubiquitous as jealousy.

On Thu, Sep 23, 2010 at 11:51 AM, Albert Rolls <alprolls at earthlink.net> wrote:
> 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 Manichćan. "'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."
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> ----- 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
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> Of course, because all heros are rebels, breakers of ranks.  The
> opposite of heresy is obedience/acceptance, and how boring is that?
>
> David Morris
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> On Wed, Sep 22, 2010 at 5:56 PM, alice wellintown
> <alicewellintown at gmail.com> wrote:
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>> 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.
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