M&D Deep Duck Soulless?

[Monte Davis]

MK > 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

Strongly reinforced on 25: "Somehow the Learnèd Dog has led him to presume
there exist safe-conduct Procedures for the realm of Death,— that through
this Dog-reveal’d Crone
​ [Hepsie],
 he will be allowed at last to pass over,
​
and find, and visit her [Rebekah] and come back, his Faith resurrected."

FWIW, very early in Ulysses Molly encounters "metempsychosis" in her
reading and asks Bloom what the word means. It recurs all day -- a funeral
day -- in Bloom's thoughts. (But then, what doesn't?)

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.
> -
> Pynchon-l / http://www.waste.org/mail/?list=pynchon-l
>
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