Ch 28 In which George Washington and his happy negro smoke dope with Mason and Dixon

[Jamie McKittrick]

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On 8 April 2018 at 11:59, Mark Kohut <mark.kohut at gmail.com> wrote:

> Somalia writes:
> >
> > And how does the enclosure of space in the horizontal realm—the Earth’s
> surface, though only really true in the abstract, the world of ideas—relate
> to verticality of the Great Chain of Being?
> >
> > Cf. The bit, can’t find page number at the moment, about Jesus’s cross
> as a kind of collapse or zero point of these two dimensions
>
> I do think the insight of that not-yet-published essay by a scholar is
> right here: Pynchon's insight patternings are: vertical is metaphysical, "
> religious" in meaning ( even if parodic, anti-meanings) and secular,
> earthbound, in the horizontal.
> Jesus on cross fits.
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