List of agnostics

[David Morris]

Spiritualism is treated as seriously as the living in GR.  Both are
the sources of comedy, awe, and recollected tragedy.  Of course
nothing should be taken literally, which is why no one should try to
infer Pynchon's belief's therein.  Are Vineland's Thanatoid's to be
taken any more or less seriously than Dixon's Ley Lines riding?  Or
Mason's visits from his departed wife?  The list goes on and on, and
people here want to pick some as valid and others as jokes.  Those
that do so are looking w/ prejudiced eyes.  They are all mediums of
variously different messages in each of those books.

David Morris

On Thu, Jun 28, 2012 at 3:35 PM, Paul Mackin <mackin.paul at verizon.net> wrote:>
> Spiritualism in GR is treated in a rather funny way.  On the one hand, the
> seances are  among the various  often quite funny  quackeries that have been
> assembled at White Visitation in the service of winning the war.  On the
> other hand, there seem to be real connections made with the dead, and of
> course the dead weren't always dead--their lives are part of the story too.
> So, a faith orientation serves as  a narrative device. Does this count?
>
> Same with Dixon and Rebekah.
>
> Then there's Gnosticism.
>
> As far as spirituality is concerned, does spirituality involve faith in the
> supernatural (like spiritualism does for some)?  Is seeing a soul in every
> stone something that happens outside our mind.  Any suspension of the laws
> of nature required? Probably not, therefore not part of the discusion.
>
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