M&D Deep Duck Soulless?

[David Morris]

Thanks, Dave.

That post says a LOT, and very accurately.

David Morris

On Thu, Jan 15, 2015 at 8:48 AM, Dave Monroe <against.the.dave at gmail.com>
wrote:

> http://waste.org/mail/?list=pynchon-l&month=0109&msg=60225
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> On Thu, Jan 15, 2015 at 6:06 AM, Mark Kohut <mark.kohut at gmail.com> wrote:
> > 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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