M&D c50 The Golem

[Lemuel Underwing]

All that sounds Good Enough but what about a potential American Religiosity
represented in the Golem...?
I honestly have a hard time seeing it, in the context of the chapter, as
Technology merely,--  related to Dixon by Kabbalist-Frontiersmen as a
Creation of the Natives, who are of the Lost Tribes of Israel (a smacking
of Joseph Smith perhaps), that says "*Ayer Asher Aye*r". Dixon, ever the
Quaker and quasi-Spiritualist himself, is apprehensive about the story
being just another "Frenchman's Duck", another veiled Allegory for emerging
technology(?), until the Booming can be heard.

of Course it soon becomes a Companion of the Great Timothy Tox...

It seems to me to represent more a keen American Sense of being Divinely
Protected, perhaps? Some unique manifestation of the Holy invisible Ghost..




On Wed, Apr 3, 2013 at 9:47 PM, David Morris <fqmorris at gmail.com> wrote:

>
>  “The function of science fiction is not only to predict the future, but
> to prevent it."   Ray Bradbury
> *
> *On Wednesday, April 3, 2013, wrote:
>
>> A' and it's worth pointing out that if Doc Frankenstein would've just
>> cut the monster a little slack and exercised a little responsibility for
>> his creation, things might have turned out better. Is it too late? I'd like
>> to know.
>>
>>
>> -----Original Message-----
>> From: David Morris <fqmorris at gmail.com>
>> To: bandwraith <bandwraith at aol.com>
>> Cc: pynchon-l <pynchon-l at waste.org>
>> Sent: Wed, Apr 3, 2013 10:09 pm
>> Subject: Re: M&D c50 The Golem
>>
>> Mary Shelly resurrected the Golem most nobly. And it still has legs.
>>
>>  Frankenstein is about hubris, as is the Golem.
>> Technology is Modern Hubris.
>>
>>  David Morris
>>
>> On Wednesday, April 3, 2013, wrote:
>>
>>> It has to be technology, no? But not just nuts and bolts (thru the
>>> neck), but in the ephemeral and awesome, and especially, American sense, as
>>> in Leo Marx's, "Machine in the Garden," or, David Nye's, "American
>>> Technological Sublime." There's a tendril to O Boy, A' and to King Lud- Big
>>> and bad, but not evil, at least not in the mythos of Americanism, as it had
>>> developed up till recent times. Most of the news clips didn't show it, but
>>> in a few grainy, bootleg, early digital videos, if you look closely, you
>>> can just make out a big hairy arm clinging to the top of the north tower.
>>>
>>>
>>> -----Original Message-----
>>> From: David Morris <fqmorris at gmail.com>
>>> To: Lemuel Underwing <luunderwing at gmail.com>
>>> Cc: “pynchon-l at waste.or
>>> g“ <pynchon-l at waste.org>
>>> Sent: Wed, Apr 3, 2013 9:14 pm
>>> Subject: Re: M&D c50 The Golem
>>>
>>> Heard of Google?
>>>
>>> On Wednesday, April 3, 2013, Lemuel Underwing wrote:
>>>
>>>> What is the Golem? Is it "the" American Religion?
>>>>
>>>>
>>>>
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