BEER Group Read. spring and a burning bush

[Keith Davis]

Beautiful, Mark. Thanks for sharing this.

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> On Apr 5, 2017, at 8:36 AM, John Bailey <sundayjb at gmail.com> wrote:
> 
> Lovely read Mark. Thanks for sharing.
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>> 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-have-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:
>>> 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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