Bodysurfing

[David Morris]

In Jungian terms, a body of water can represent the unconscious, because we
see mostly its surface, but it teems with mysterious life below that
surface.


On Fri, Dec 28, 2012 at 1:16 PM, Paul Mackin <mackin.paul at verizon.net>wrote:

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> -------- Original Message --------  Subject: Re: Bodysurfing  Date: Fri,
> 28 Dec 2012 13:13:24 -0500  From: Paul Mackin <mackin.paul at verizon.net><mackin.paul at verizon.net>  To:
> eburns at gmail.com
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> According to Buck Mulligan looking out over the Irish Sea, the greatest
> Mudder of them all.
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> On 12/28/2012 12:01 PM, eburns at gmail.com wrote:
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> >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.
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> This idea is explored to great effect in Wm Gaddis' The Recognitions.
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> Sent from my BlackBerry® wireless device
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> *From: * Ian Livingston <igrlivingston at gmail.com><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> <bandwraith at aol.com>
> *Cc: *<pynchon-l at waste.org> <pynchon-l at waste.org>
> *Subject: *Re: Bodysurfing
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>  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.
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>  Surf's up!
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> On Fri, Dec 28, 2012 at 4:46 AM, <bandwraith at aol.com> wrote:
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>> 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...
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>> Happy New Year!
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>> -----Original Message-----
>> From: lee momonin <momonin at gmail.com>
>> To: bandwraith <bandwraith at aol.com>
>> Cc: pynchon-l <pynchon-l at waste.org>
>> Sent: Fri, Dec 28, 2012 7:07 am
>> Subject: Re: Bodysurfing
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>> therefore happy new year!
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>> Following the mood of bodysurfing
>> http://www.zuguide.com/#Being-There
>> the garden will make you happy too
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