M&D Deep Duck Soulless?

[Mark Kohut]

In Thomas Pynchon's 1963 premiere novel V., metempsychosis is
mentioned in reference to the book "The Search for Bridey Murphy" by
Morey Bernstein.

On Thu, Jan 15, 2015 at 7:53 AM, Monte Davis <montedavis49 at gmail.com> 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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