BEER Group Read. spring and a burning bush

[Kai Frederik Lorentzen]

In Greek mythology pear trees are associated with Hera, goddess of 
marriage and protectress of married women. Makes sense for Maxine who's 
not happy with her divorce and who will be closer again to Horst in the 
end. Statues of Hera were built from the wood of pear trees.

http://www.bambusgarten.com/files/Baummythologie_eBook.pdf (p. 31, last 
paragraph)


On 13.10.2013 03:49, Mark Kohut wrote:
> First day of spring. Equinox. A pagan celebration co-opted by The Church. Someone, Laura, wanted
> an example of simple fine writing: how about here, first page, about the Callery Pears on the Upper West Side
> and "sunlight finding its way past rooflines and water tanks to the end of the block and into one particular tree,
> which all at once is filled with light." Such an image, why?
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> I suggest we get the author's almost-religious love of nature and light, the pantheistic or panentheistic vision, as we wrote
> about it in that Book of Light, Against the Day embodied in that illuminated Callery Pear tree that catches
> secular Maxine like that Biblical bush caught Moses.
> "As a powerful religious symbol, the burning bush represents many things to Jews and Christians such as God's miraculous energy, sacred light, illumination, and the burning heart of purity, love and clarity."--wikipedia
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> If Oedipa wanted, tried, to hear the Word, but couldn;t Maxine sees god in a Callery Pear tree fifty years later.
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