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

[Alex Colter]

"The Ascent to Christ is a struggle thro' one heresy after another,
River-wise up-country into a proliferation of Sects and Sects branching
from Sects, unto Deism, faithless, pretending to be holy, and beyond,---
ever away from the Sea, from the Harbor, from all that was serene and
certain, into an Interior unmapp'd, a Realm of Doubt. The Nights. The
Storms and Beasts. The Falls, the Rapids,... the America of the Soul.
Doubt is of the essence of Christ. Of the twelve Apostles, most true to him
was ever Thomas,--- indeed, in the* Acta Thomae* they are said to be Twins.
The final pure Christ is pure uncertainty. He is become the central
subjunctive fact of a Faith, that risks ev'ry-thing upon one bodily
Resurrection.... Wouldn't something less doubtable have done? a prophetic
dream, a communication with a dead person? Some few tatters of evidence to
wrap our poor naked spirits against the coldness of a World where Mortality
and its Agents may bully their way, wherever they wish to go...."

-The Reverend Wicks Cherrycoke, *Undeliver'd Sermons
*(M&D c53p511)


On Sun, Mar 4, 2012 at 9:45 AM, Bled Welder <bledwelder at hotmail.com> wrote:

>  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
> >
> > 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--
> > >
> > >
> > > > 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.
> > > > >
> > > > > 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?
> > > > >
> > > > > What's the role of Jesus/God etc. in Pynchon's work? No doubt
> something
> > > > > discussed a zillion times.
> > > > >
> > > > > What's the number of Christians and otherwise religious people in
> these
> > > > > sacred Pynchon vaults? Is this a fundamentally Christian list of
> people
> > > > > here?
> > > > >
> > > > > 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--
> > > >
> > > > He adapts Christian notions--in a kind of reverse mode--to explain
> the
> > > > condition of mankind (Us)
> > > >
> > > > Poor preterite souls.
> > > >
> > > > The passed over.
> > > >
> > > > Also, he uses "resurrection of the body" to suggest the possibility
> of
> > > > some kind of salvation.
> > > >
> > > > The few things I can think of off the top of my head.
> > > >
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