BEER Group Read. spring and a burning bush

[John Bailey]

Lovely read Mark. Thanks for sharing.

On Wed, Apr 5, 2017 at 9:15 PM, Mark Kohut <mark.kohut at gmail.com> wrote:

> 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.
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> https://www.theatlantic.com/science/archive/2017/04/trees-ha
> ve-their-own-songs/521742/?utm_source=twb
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> On Sat, Oct 12, 2013 at 9:49 PM, Mark Kohut <markekohut at yahoo.com> wrote:
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>> 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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