M&D Deep Duck Soulless?

[Mark Kohut]

p. 22....Mason, from the ongoing grief of the loss of his wife, after
suggesting to Dixon that they
should investigate the Learned Dog for Metempsychosis reasons, at
least p.19....after asking why are there still not
Oracles...Gate--Ways to Futurity.....

must ask tLD if he has a soul...

I would say, off the top, Mason is sorta-obsessed with whether Death
is The End or there is an After, wouldn't you? [tangential: we might
remember the von Braun quote in GR. More heretically tangential: we
might remember TRP's lifelong remembering of his great pal, Richard
F.?]

The doubts of a religious man. There was a time in the West when no
(religious) person would even have such doubts. Dante's time did not,
right Monte? and TRP fave Henry Adams said about the same of the time
of building Mont-Saint Michel and Chartes.
 Becker suggests that Acquinas's massive Summa came about as his and
his time's edifice against doubt...

But, doubtlessly, religious doubt at least was ushered in with the
Enlightenment.
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