M & D Read. Chap 29 cont. Misc.

[Mark Kohut]

Yeahp....one of the three who walk into that bar is a Jesuit....

             "But it is a question whether the most Jesuitical Jesuit of
the most heated
             Protestant imagination has ever putdown a thorough-going
advocate in the
             in the endless dodgings and windings, suppressions and
suggestions of his
             Method"
                           ---Geo Saintsbury, Famous Lit Crit in Notes on a
CellarBook, 1933.

very revealing of attitude in the phrasings...



On Thu, Apr 26, 2018 at 1:01 PM, Joseph Tracy <brook7 at sover.net> wrote:

> "Benjamin Franklin was surrounded by spies while he lived in England.  He
> lived at Franklin House in London from 1757 to 1775 while he was ambassador
> and the British were always hoping to find out information about the
> colonies while visiting him.” from web page about 18th C spying
> Interestingly, Franklin is leading the electrical danse macabre at the end
> of the chapter.
>
> In my mind the whole chapter is foreshadowing of the fact that the M&D
> line is a deeply flawed idea and will lead to bad shit. War is brewing,
> lines are being drawn, and Mason’s paranoia is Pynchon’s way of saying
> people rarely do what they do without warning, knowledge, personal and
> social indications if it is shady.  Mason, like most of us, is portrayed
> on every level as a not entirely innocent innocent.
>
> There is a definite flavor of antinomianism with Mason( not so much
> personal as part of the culture) that is contrasted more directly in the
> next chapter with Quaker( Dixon) rejection of that aspect of hierarchical
> religious forms. As participant in a Friends meeting and reader of Friends
> history, this  topic is coming more to the foreground in this read.
> > On Apr 26, 2018, at 3:57 AM, Mark Kohut <mark.kohut at gmail.com> wrote:
> >
> > p 290....we have the paving stones...
> >
> > p290--291...'they are directing, nowhere but into his own eyes, stares
> > unbearable with meaning he cannot fathom"
> >
> >
> > p 291...to sharpen toward Revelation.
> >
> >     *the same look, ...*as if deliberately  to recall the other night
> > *......*Has he been under Surveillance..?
> >
> > is this paranoia from an unreliable character (on this subject)...or
> real?
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