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

[Mark Kohut]

Another vote against non-belief.....maybe I'm the example he, Gaddis, is savaging?...
 
I can only say, to me he seems sympathetic to the anti-religious sections. Too.
How about Reverend Gilbert Sullivan to go back to the original post? The author gave him that musical comedy name.
 
And, I read the sympathies below as sympathies for the character, Wyatt.....
yes, he may be the test case. Things are yet to happen to him
 
Brown's "supernaturally evil" power over Fuller  is not like Wyatt's brushes with whatever he is experiencing, is it?
That way to describe it is more metaphorical than possibly supernatural, yes?
 

From: David Morris <fqmorris at gmail.com>
To: Paul Mackin <mackin.paul at verizon.net>
Cc: Richard Ryan <himself at richardryan.com>; pynchon-l at waste.org
Sent: Wednesday, July 27, 2011 5:50 PM
Subject: Re: TRTR, Pt 2, C 2 "does there exist such a thing as mermaids, sar?"

It's not only that Gaddis WROTE those supernatural sections into TR,
it's that he seems sympathetic to those sections, to their having
"really" happened in the world of this novel.

On Wed, Jul 27, 2011 at 4:32 PM, Paul Mackin <mackin.paul at verizon.net> wrote:
> On 7/27/2011 4:45 PM, Richard Ryan wrote:.
>>
>> If we think that Gaddis is an atheist and a materialist, how do we
>> account for mystical/magical events in The Recognitions?  I.e, Wyatt
>> seeing his mother's ghost on her death; Wyatt's recuperation after the
>> sacrifice of the Barbary Ape; the supernaturally evil power that Brown
>> has over Wyatt, etc.?
>
> Also there's no inconsistency in an author's writing about supernatural
> goings-on and also not believing they could happen?
>
> Also the reverse is true.
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