BEER Group Read. spring and a burning bush

[Mark Kohut]

It seems that this book deals with "the sounds" of the Callery pear tree
that Pynchon, lover of trees and their human importance,
 made important (enough) in Bleeding Edge.


https://www.theatlantic.com/science/archive/2017/04/trees-
have-their-own-songs/521742/?utm_source=twb

On Sat, Oct 12, 2013 at 9:49 PM, Mark Kohut <markekohut at yahoo.com> wrote:

> First day of spring. Equinox. A pagan celebration co-opted by The Church.
> Someone, Laura, wanted
> an example of simple fine writing: how about here, first page, about the
> Callery Pears on the Upper West Side
> and "sunlight finding its way past rooflines and water tanks to the end of
> the block and into one particular tree,
> which all at once is filled with light." Such an image, why?
>
> I suggest we get the author's almost-religious love of nature and light,
> the pantheistic or panentheistic vision, as we wrote
> about it in that Book of Light, Against the Day embodied in that
> illuminated Callery Pear tree that catches
> secular Maxine like that Biblical bush caught Moses.
> "As a powerful religious symbol, the burning bush represents many things
> to Jews and Christians such as God's miraculous energy, sacred light,
> illumination, and the burning heart of purity, love and clarity."--wikipedia
>
> If Oedipa wanted, tried, to hear the Word, but couldn;t Maxine sees god in
> a Callery Pear tree fifty years later.
>
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