BEg2 chapter 10 dipping into the Windust dossier

[Mark Kohut]

The bride and groom are also "already or about to become" strangers is how
I read it.

On Sat, Jan 1, 2022 at 3:13 AM Michael Bailey <michael.lee.bailey at gmail.com>
wrote:

> [Windust] met, courted, and married—as his nameless biographers put it,
> “deployed into a spousal scenario with”—a very young local girl named
> Xiomara.
>  For a minute Maxine imagines a wedding sequence out in the jungle, with
> pyramids, native Mayan rituals, psychedelics. But no, instead it was in the
> sacristy at the local Catholic church, everyone there already or about to
> become strangers . . .
>
>
>
> I’m beguiled and stumped - “in the sacristy at the local Catholic church,
> everyone there already or about to become strangers…”
>
> Already or about to become strangers?
>
> Not being technically Catholic myself (though I think they claim
> everybody,) I sometimes wonder about  what I’m missing.
> At best I think of something like that Pink Floyd line, “calls the faithful
> to their knees, to hear the softly spoken magic spell”
>
> Related to that would the Windust nups be such a sacrilege as to estrange
> everyone there - and from whom? Each other? Themselves?
> https://youtu.be/b_-YfmyXlMo
>
>
> Or would the disjunctions perpetrated by the neoliberal fever dream cause
> the estrangement, despite Windust’s attempt to observe the forms, which in
> and of itself - wasn’t so evil?
>
> There’s a tenet that even a wicked priest can confer sacraments &
> blessings, right?
>
> But can an unholy recipient receive grace?
>
> Even I know there’s stipulations.
>
>
> Tangential or related -
>
> https://www.washingtonpost.com/archive/politics/2001/06/09/4-men-convicted-in-murder-of-guatemalan-bishop/52d264b1-4d98-4df7-bb6a-edefce8441a5/
> --
> Pynchon-L: https://waste.org/mailman/listinfo/pynchon-l
>