the sarcophagus of god

[Mark Kohut]

I might think Nietzsche felt that idle contemplation was as dead as a dead church, so why not, like stagnant water, give it 
a place to pool? 
 
"Trust only the thoughts you have while walking"---Nietzsche

From: Madeleine Maudlin <madeleinemaudlin at gmail.com>
To: Prashant Kumar <p.kumar at physics.usyd.edu.au> 
Cc: P-list <pynchon-l at waste.org> 
Sent: Friday, June 1, 2012 11:48 AM
Subject: Re: the sarcophagus of god


Ah thank you!  I was thinking BGE.  But I think there's a place where he mentions using churches, after all the crosswork is removed etc, for idle contemplation.  Maybe GaySc.  Maybe I'm wrong althogether. 

Being a little more, sober, today, as it were, I'm not sure I want to divulge my Nieztzsche insights.  Or if I even agree with what I was thinking yesterday.  Something having possibly to do with the architecture of some churches though, especially the Gothic ones...


On Fri, Jun 1, 2012 at 3:57 AM, Prashant Kumar <p.kumar at physics.usyd.edu.au> wrote:

It's in the second chapter and ff. of Beyond Good and Evil:
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>On 1 June 2012 03:23, Madeleine Maudlin <madeleinemaudlin at gmail.com> wrote:
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>I was just wandering, what was that line, or where is it, I can't find it, Nietzsche had about after clearing out the bad air of churches, we'd keep them around as places to go to for contemplation. 
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