M&D Deep Duck Soulless?

[Mark Kohut]

The Learned Dog tells of KOANS.....which drive one to insanity when
meditated on....
second time the word insanity is used about a mystical-like experience...

Insanity is the social condition of mystical and religious belief in
the Age of Reason?, once again
MADNESS AND CIVILIZATION as a paradigm book.

>From the wiki article on MADNESS AND CIVILIZATION "in the Renaissance
the mad were portrayed in art as possessing a kind of wisdom - a
knowledge of the limits of our world"...

which comes to my mind when I read The Learned Dog declare
emphatically he is not supernatural, there is
'ever an Explanation"..
and from that great leg-puller, ironist of irony, it is a talking dog
doing the declaring.

Samuel Johnson on a badly-walking-on-two-legs dog: "it is not that he
does it badly but that he does it at all'
[paraphrase actually, so check out for perfection]

On Thu, Jan 15, 2015 at 6:50 AM, Mark Kohut <mark.kohut at gmail.com> wrote:
> 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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