Re To The Wonder and Against the Day

[Lemuel Underwing]

Hmm still in the process of reading AtD... and what a treasure of a book it
is!
is wonder of the natural beautiful world a theme in it?
I keep reading the Natural world coming down to a strange sort of
Mundane... I think of Skip the Ball-Lightning... or else proving Nature
itself closer to the unimaginable, beyond the clearly delineated borders of
what has been thought of as Natural... maybe that's where the wonder comes
in... or is it Lew's idea Grace?
Religiosity in AtD seems confined to Anarchists, Mathematicians, Aeronauts,
and those peculiar Strangers...?
But, like I said, I haven't finished reading it yet, and my head is over
intoxicated in apparent themes that will no doubt prove the giddy mirages
of a first read.
I-it's just too fun to want it to end... I had the same problem with Mason
& Dixon.


On Tue, Apr 30, 2013 at 6:13 PM, Mark Kohut <markekohut at yahoo.com> wrote:

> already see To The Wonder before I did and post about the parallel
>    thematic lines (to infinity, maybe, the wonder, the wonder) it has
> with Pynchon--
> Against the Day particularly.
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> Sorta this metaphysical place some modernists arrive at when they
> start with Mont-Saint Michel?
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> THEMATIC SPOILER MAYBE!
> Part of the Wonder of the title is the wonder of our natural beautiful
> world
> which, Malick might be saying, should be seen religously, if/when we lose
> that Mont-Saint
> Michel religion.
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> This is what I meant by paralleling, perhaps, a theme of Against the Day.
> And Malick leaves it all mysterious too...
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