Gravity's Son/Mason and Son/Against the Son

[Paul Mackin]

On 3/4/2012 8:07 AM, Bled Welder wrote:
> Thanks yes, reverse mode, that sounds good and proper. Could I bother
> you for where I might look up this bit about resurrection and salvation?


Well, jocularly, there was the Resurrection of the Body auto repair shop 
in Inherent Vice.

But more importantly, my first thought would be to his review of 
Garcia-Marquez's book the the NY Times, Death in a Time of Cholera.

http://www.themodernword.com/pynchon/pynchon_essays_cholera.html

But it's in Mason & Dixon and other places as well.

Also in one of his essays but I forget which one.

P

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> Jeez, I was going to attempt to read something this morning and avoid
> being sucked in by those Morrison links...could not. Ah well, nothing
> wrong with a good dose of Jim-worship on a Sunday morn...he was a deity
> of his time.
>
> Would anybody agree with me that Roger Waters, one, /is/ the mind of
> Pink Floyd, and also that Waters is the greatest mind in rock history
> (obvious to me), and also that Gilmore while maybe being a sort of
> virtuoso on the guitar, composes only a fraction of Floyd compared to
> Waters? Gilmorites cause me agnst on occasion. For a while two and three
> years ago Live at Pompeii became sort of a spiritual experience for me.
> Of course I was drinking very heavily back then--
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>  > Date: Sun, 4 Mar 2012 07:48:02 -0500
>  > From: mackin.paul at verizon.net
>  > To: pynchon-l at waste.org
>  > Subject: Re: Gravity's Son/Mason and Son/Against the Son
>  >
>  > On 3/4/2012 6:59 AM, Bled Welder wrote:
>  > > Thinking about the greatness of Jim Morrison for a moment, I found
>  > > myself thinking of Jesus.
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>  > > I've read 200 of AtD, 150 of GR, and 100 of MD recently. I don't recall
>  > > any mention of religion, or Jesus, etc., items for discussion in that
>  > > vein. Although maybe it might, wait, the uneducated half in MD, is it
>  > > Mason or Dixon, the English chap, isn't he Christian?
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>  > > What's the role of Jesus/God etc. in Pynchon's work? No doubt something
>  > > discussed a zillion times.
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>  > > What's the number of Christians and otherwise religious people in these
>  > > sacred Pynchon vaults? Is this a fundamentally Christian list of people
>  > > here?
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>  > > Does Pynchon have religion? I would very much like to know that if he
>  > > is! Not like, math and physics type religion, but like
>  > > Christianity/Kabbalah sortsa thing--
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>  > He adapts Christian notions--in a kind of reverse mode--to explain the
>  > condition of mankind (Us)
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>  > Poor preterite souls.
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>  > The passed over.
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>  > Also, he uses "resurrection of the body" to suggest the possibility of
>  > some kind of salvation.
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>  > The few things I can think of off the top of my head.
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