M&D Deep Duck Soulless?

[Joseph Tracy]

Interesting in terms of Mason's frequenting of hangings, a place where souls might be departing bodies on a regular basis. Maybe he was looking for some evidence of that.
On Jan 15, 2015, at 7:53 AM, Monte Davis wrote:

> 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.
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