metaphysical club

[bandwraith at aol.com]

Of course, the counter-example would be
Puck Beaverton with the swatstika tattooed
on his forehead. Sometimes it is appropriate
to judge a book by its cover,


-----Original Message-----
From: bandwraith <bandwraith at aol.com>
To: brook7 <brook7 at sover.net>; pynchon-l <pynchon-l at waste.org>
Sent: Wed, May 9, 2012 10:24 am
Subject: Re: metaphysical club

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 The sect that
Cyprian joins, however, led by the dude with
the tetractys tattooed on his forehead- could
be the cover of a book- Anthropodermic Bibliopegy-
how should we judge?

Or, maybe, it's to remind novitiates not to
judge by preconceived patterns- all the
received wisdom of the past, from the pytha-
gorean-platonic, to the judeo-christian-
half of it all canned- but, instead, to look at
the way things are in a "loose and baggy"
and less than certain or presumptious style-
open to all possibilities, especially the
pragmatic, if not the convenient.




-----Original Message-----
From: Joseph Tracy <brook7 at sover.net>
To: P-list List <pynchon-l at waste.org>
Sent: Wed, May 9, 2012 4:24 am
Subject: metaphysical club

I  recently finished Menand's The Metaphysical Club....