BEER Group Read. spring and a burning bush

[Jochen Stremmel]

"Doesn't suck"! Thanks Mark.

2017-04-05 14:36 GMT+02:00 John Bailey <sundayjb at gmail.com>:

> 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.
>>
>>
>> https://www.theatlantic.com/science/archive/2017/04/trees-ha
>> ve-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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