M&D Deep Duck Soulless?

[Mark Kohut]

Misc. on grief.

The Interior Circuit: A Mexico City Chronicle, offered [novelist]
Francisco Goldman's frank description of his emotional fragility five
long years after the death of his wife in a surfing accident.


On Thu, Jan 15, 2015 at 10:11 AM, David Morris <fqmorris at gmail.com> wrote:
>>> 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."
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> Of course this references Orpheus' journey to the Underworld in his failed
> attempt to retrieve his wife.  And this brings us back to GR, and Slothrup
> as Orpheus.
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> David Morris
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> On Thu, Jan 15, 2015 at 9:03 AM, Mark Kohut <mark.kohut at gmail.com> wrote:
>>
>> Puts most of his actions in regard to grief under that obsession. Soul
>> survival that is.
>>
>> On Thu, Jan 15, 2015 at 10:06 AM, Joseph Tracy <brook7 at sover.net> wrote:
>> > 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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