M&D Deep Duck Soulless?

[Dave Monroe]

We try. I USED to, @ least, as often as not, if not more so, actually
type things out of actual books.  At work  And now, nearing five years
(?!) of unemployment, I get less and less done here.  I get not being
trapped @ a job has freed me up to waste my time otherwise,

On Thu, Jan 15, 2015 at 8:55 AM, David Morris <fqmorris at gmail.com> wrote:
> 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
>>
>>
>>
>> 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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