Back to Trilling The Recognitions

[Paul Mackin]

On 5/5/2011 12:12 PM, Mark Kohut wrote:
> 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....

Ah , the day when our past catches up with us, implying some kind of 
punishment in store.

Is there a punishment for not recognizing inauthenticity?

Probably not.

P
>
>
> ----- 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
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