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

[Bled Welder]

Resurrection of the Body auto repair is brilliant enough!
I'll check out the Marquez essay--

> Date: Sun, 4 Mar 2012 10:35:59 -0500
> From: mackin.paul at verizon.net
> To: pynchon-l at waste.org
> Subject: Re: Gravity's Son/Mason and Son/Against the Son
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> 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?
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> Well, jocularly, there was the Resurrection of the Body auto repair shop 
> in Inherent Vice.
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> 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.
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> http://www.themodernword.com/pynchon/pynchon_essays_cholera.html
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> But it's in Mason & Dixon and other places as well.
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> Also in one of his essays but I forget which one.
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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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