TRTR, Pt 2, C 2 "does there exist such a thing as mermaids, sar?"

[Michael Bailey]

 Richard Ryan wrote:
> The G&S comparison rings true - especially for this wry dialogue.  But
> Gaddis's "non-belief"?  How so Mark?
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although Gaddis is really good at excoriating scoundrelry and fakery
in the Church, there's the reverence of Stanley to consider.  The baby
that he doesn't throw out with the bathwater - other such elements
might be Wyatt's genuine reverence for the genuine reverence of the
painters he's forging, that sidelong comment of the John dude (still
haven't figured wtf about him but anyway) where he talks about how
listening to old Gwyon preach the aboriginal doctrine he was ready to
sign on and sounding quite sincere about it, Agnes Deigh's respectful
treatment of Mass shown by her unwillingness to take it
casually...actually a lot more places...


> On Sat, Jul 23, 2011 at 7:30 PM, Mark Kohut <markekohut at yahoo.com> wrote:
>> I have heard the mermaids calling each to each. ----Eliot
>> Love Song of J. Alfred Prufrock
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>> p. 346 Fuller.....explores the 'dialects' of religious belief.......
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>> simple man of faith...dissed and 'refuted' by the awful Recktall.......
>> but in Fuller's arguments....."have you seen an octopus"...............
>> There has to be mahn mermaids............
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>> I think we see Gaddis's non-belief......True?
>>
>> And religious belief/dogma as a Gilbert & Sullivan light opera.......
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