Back to Trilling The Recognitions

[Mark Kohut]

This is only very tangentially related to this thread, but
somewhere else yesterday, I read a phrase that hasn't crossed
my mind in years: 

Day of Reckoning....



----- Original Message ----
From: Paul Mackin <mackin.paul at verizon.net>
To: Jed Kelestron <jedkelestron at gmail.com>; pynchon-l at waste.org
Sent: Thu, May 5, 2011 10:24:57 AM
Subject: Re: Back to Trilling The Recognitions

On 5/5/2011 9:52 AM, Jed Kelestron wrote:
>>  It's
>> my experience that females can sometimes be quite adept at pointing out the
>> delusions of males.  (not that this will necessary always be the case)
> "Still, like other women in love, salvation was her original purpose,
> redemption her eventual privilege; and, like most women, she could not
> wait to see him to see him thoroughly damned first, before she stepped
> in, believing, perhaps as they do, that if he were saved now he would
> never need to be redeemed."
> 
>      -- regarding Esther on p. 78
> 
Excellent.

Patient: Doctor, I have a cold.

Doctor: We can't cure a cold. Wait until it turns into  pneumonia and we can 
treat you.

Or---

Everyone needs saving (as a result of Man's Fate, Original Sin, or whatever you 
want to call it) but it is not always easy to RECOGNIZE this fact.

An implementer is needed.  Marriage can be a very useful part of the process.

P