The WreckiGnitions Read

[Mark Kohut]

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Golden_Bough

great influence on modernism in literature...still ongoing

'Dispassionate look at religion'.....[Cf. Part 1, TR] ...

In a footnote on the wiki, Frazer himself sez: can be dangerous to 
'civilization'...[Dya think he meant Victorian Civ/] 


Much after TR and V. Wittgenstein's remarks on Frazer were published, among 
which is one that goes
"Frazer is more savage on the savages than the savages themselves".....[I'm 
assuming 'savages' is said sorta in quotes
or with wilfull political incorrectness]


 


----- Original Message ----
From: Mark Kohut <markekohut at yahoo.com>
To: pynchon -l <pynchon-l at waste.org>
Sent: Fri, April 1, 2011 3:55:45 PM
Subject: The WreckiGnitions Read

The Golden Bough mattered a LOT to Gaddis, I think I've learned from the 
landscape, yes?

From one of those essays on The Wasteland Monroe bred out of the dead land: 
Even the Golden Bough can be read in two ways: as a collection of entertaining 
myths, or as a revelation of that vanished mind of which our mind is a 
continuation.