Iceland Spar, how wide and deep IS this symbol?

[Ian Livingston]

Also, thus, the sacred and the profane? Always the polarities and Pynchon's
quest for the excluded terrain between...? I've read only a little of Sir
Thomas, but it's easy for me to think Pynchon might have found some uh
consanguinity?

On Wed, Aug 29, 2012 at 11:03 PM, Mark Kohut <markekohut at yahoo.com> wrote:

> In a book on Pynchon or in some Pynchon Notes or two, sourcing
> Sir Thomas Browne (1605-1682) as an influence on early Pynchon is done.
>  I hardly know his work but
>
> Basil Willey in his English Moralists writes this: "With Browne we return
> to the split between Faith & Reason......there are two orders of truth...
> truth of faith and truth of science" (called philosophy then).  How
> resolve?
> "Believe them both at once, but at different levels of
> oneself."................
>
> Earlier,  Bacon segregated faith from scinece to protect science....Browne
> does so to protect faith............................"methinks there be not
> impossibilities enough in religion for an active faith....I love to lose
> myself
> in a mystery, to pursue my reason to an O altitudo"---Religio Medici
>
> I offer this thus re it all....
>



-- 
"Less than any man have I  excuse for prejudice; and I feel for all creeds
the warm sympathy of one who has come to learn that even the trust in
reason is a precarious faith, and that we are all fragments of darkness
groping for the sun. I know no more about the ultimates than the simplest
urchin in the streets." -- Will Durant
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