Fwd: Re: Bodysurfing

[Paul Mackin]

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Subject: 	Re: Bodysurfing
Date: 	Fri, 28 Dec 2012 13:13:24 -0500
From: 	Paul Mackin <mackin.paul at verizon.net>
To: 	eburns at gmail.com



According to Buck Mulligan looking out over the Irish Sea, the greatest 
Mudder of them all.

P


On 12/28/2012 12:01 PM, eburns at gmail.com wrote:
> >I was taught that Christ was the body of >the Church and that he was 
> a fisher of >men, i.e., one who pulled men out of the >sea and to himself.
>
> This idea is explored to great effect in Wm Gaddis' The Recognitions.
>
> Sent from my BlackBerry® wireless device
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> *From: * Ian Livingston <igrlivingston at gmail.com>
> *Sender: * owner-pynchon-l at waste.org
> *Date: *Fri, 28 Dec 2012 08:40:50 -0800
> *To: *<bandwraith at aol.com>
> *Cc: *<pynchon-l at waste.org>
> *Subject: *Re: Bodysurfing
>
> Hm. Odd I never made that association before. My Pa was a minister and 
> I, in my anti-faith, researched the literature well and I don't 
> recollect coming across the sea as the body of the church. I was 
> taught that Christ was the body of the Church and that he was a fisher 
> of men, i.e., one who pulled men out of the sea and to himself. Jung, 
> of course, a theologically literate type, associates water in general 
> with the chthonic, pre-conscious darkness. From that perspective, 
> walking, gliding, or sailing over it, while a dicey bit of work, is 
> precisely the business of the conscious (awakened, enlightened) people 
> of the world.
>
> Surf's up!
>
> On Fri, Dec 28, 2012 at 4:46 AM, <bandwraith at aol.com 
> <mailto:bandwraith at aol.com>> wrote:
>
>     Yea! Well, there are many different priesthoods in our complex
>     modern society, whose collective motto might be: "Obfuscating you
>     is just the nature of our game."
>     Science and literature as much as religion, in that regard. But
>     the sea is still the sea, and we shall see whose left standing, or
>     swimming as the case may be, come Lemuria- a garden for octupi.
>      Occupying octupi, one would hope...
>
>     Happy New Year!
>
>
>
>     -----Original Message-----
>     From: lee momonin <momonin at gmail.com <mailto:momonin at gmail.com>>
>     To: bandwraith <bandwraith at aol.com <mailto:bandwraith at aol.com>>
>     Cc: pynchon-l <pynchon-l at waste.org <mailto:pynchon-l at waste.org>>
>     Sent: Fri, Dec 28, 2012 7:07 am
>     Subject: Re: Bodysurfing
>
>
>     therefore happy new year!
>
>     Following the mood of bodysurfing
>     http://www.zuguide.com/#Being-There
>     the garden will make you happy too
>
>



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