M&D c50 The Golem

[Lemuel Underwing]

Also, the wonderful bit about Golem-making being a Vital Part of the Gospel
of Christ, because he was known to have made clay pigeons and animated them
through the Infancy Gospel of Thomas (far from canonical). This may
represent a wide and unique range of American Religious experience that
tended, perhaps, to the Heretical. Tho' through the influence of the
Christian Right these experiences now seem so mundane that we forget at
length just how Strange many early American Christian Beliefs were at one
time.


On Fri, Apr 5, 2013 at 6:29 PM, Lemuel Underwing <luunderwing at gmail.com>wrote:

> 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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