The WreckiGnitions Read

[cfabel]

"Metaphysics...a kind of magic.

But ...I must neither speak in defense of magic nor ridicule it.

What it is that is deep about magic would be kept--

...In fact, keeping magic out has the character of magic

For...to talk about the "world" (and not about this tree or table), was I
trying to do anything except conjure up something of a higher order by my
words?"

(Wittgenstein; remarks on The Golden Bough).

 

The sympathetic magic of words acting upon words. and the concepts entire
domaine.

 

C. F. Abel

Chair

Department of Government

Stephen F. Austin State University

Nacogdoches, Texas 75962

(936) 468-3903

 

 

 

 

-----Original Message-----
From: owner-pynchon-l at waste.org [mailto:owner-pynchon-l at waste.org] On Behalf
Of Mark Kohut
Sent: Friday, April 01, 2011 2:56 PM
To: pynchon -l
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. 

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