Gravity again

[Lemuel Underwing]

Yeah it seems to me like Satan is something of a sort of comedic foil in
Pynchon... I think of the strange but Mostly Harmless Third Surveyor in
Mason & Dixon in particular


On Sun, Apr 14, 2013 at 7:40 PM, alice wellintown <alicewellintown at gmail.com
> wrote:

> Satan is useless too, as useless as Jesus and all the rest. Religion was.
> Science is.
>
>
> On Sun, Apr 14, 2013 at 7:29 PM, Ian Livingston <igrlivingston at gmail.com>wrote:
>
>> Ah, but death is the promise that makes life sweet. Without death,
>> villains would live forever and perpetuate their evil without end. Without
>> death, the adequately good would sit in their homes and be eternally
>> adequate. Without death, life is not worth living. I guess that makes Satan
>> pretty indispensable to the living.
>>
>> It's the evil in men that rules the underworld, the lust for deification
>> and eternal life.
>>
>>
>> On Sun, Apr 14, 2013 at 4:13 PM, Keith Davis <kbob42 at gmail.com> wrote:
>>
>>> I think the bastard landed here in South Carolina.
>>>
>>> Sent from my iPhone
>>>
>>> On Apr 14, 2013, at 5:34 PM, Ian Livingston <igrlivingston at gmail.com>
>>> wrote:
>>>
>>> Yeah, but Nebraska really suck more than Wyoming? Where did Satan land
>>> when he fell to Earth? Did he fall to Earth? Or did he fall into some black
>>> hole somewhere?
>>>
>>>
>>> On Sun, Apr 14, 2013 at 1:09 PM, jochen stremmel <jstremmel at gmail.com>wrote:
>>>
>>>> The earth just sucks.
>>>>
>>>>
>>>> 2013/4/14 Ian Livingston <igrlivingston at gmail.com>
>>>>
>>>>> What is gravity? To the best of my knowledge it remains undefined
>>>>> among physicists. If Satan fell by cause of gravity, is gravity, then,
>>>>> whatever is down? That would make for an awful lot of downs, I guess.
>>>>>
>>>>>
>>>>> On Sun, Apr 14, 2013 at 11:40 AM, Lemuel Underwing <
>>>>> luunderwing at gmail.com> wrote:
>>>>>
>>>>>> o-or something like that
>>>>>>
>>>>>>
>>>>>> On Sun, Apr 14, 2013 at 1:40 PM, Lemuel Underwing <
>>>>>> luunderwing at gmail.com> wrote:
>>>>>>
>>>>>>> Blake says that Gravity is but an invention of Newton.
>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>
>>>>>>> On Sun, Apr 14, 2013 at 4:01 AM, Markekohut <markekohut at yahoo.com>wrote:
>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>> Satan, said Chesterton, fell through force of
>>>>>>>> gravity.----C.S.Lewis, 1960 preface to
>>>>>>>> The Screwtape Letters.
>>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>
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