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

[Mark Kohut]

I think I see Fuller's belief in the unseen--mermaids and mermahns--as examples of Gaddis perspective on 'faith'
With Brown's simple reasoning as narratorial perspective (there's one rub, eh?)
 
Then there is the line about the Deity as an imaginary number, the square root of minus one, not, again, narratorial maybe, but an author's mind at work.
 
And as Gaddis 'exposes' the real world origins of just about all religions (via The Golden Bough and anything else).....
 
Mostly, I see little presentation of 'mystery' about such ultimate questions, as I do in Pynchon. No middle here from Gaddis,
Charles Fort notwithstanding............

From: Richard Ryan <himself at richardryan.com>
To: Mark Kohut <markekohut at yahoo.com>
Cc: pynchon -l <pynchon-l at waste.org>
Sent: Sunday, July 24, 2011 5:20 AM
Subject: Re: TRTR, Pt 2, C 2 "does there exist such a thing as mermaids, sar?"

The G&S comparison rings true - especially for this wry dialogue.  But
Gaddis's "non-belief"?  How so Mark?

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
>
> p. 346 Fuller.....explores the 'dialects' of religious belief.......
>
> 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............
>
> I think we see Gaddis's non-belief......True?
>
> And religious belief/dogma as a Gilbert & Sullivan light opera.......



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