Not P but DFW: the implications of a human Christ

[J Tracy]

Concise and well put. 


> On Feb 11, 2026, at 11:10 AM, Corbeau Castrum via Pynchon-l <pynchon-l at waste.org> wrote:
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> I think it means consequences, as in the consequences of Christ being human and thus experiencing all of nature's physical forces (i.e. being able to die). 
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> On Wednesday, February 11th, 2026 at 17:02, Mike Jing <gravitys.rainbow.cn at gmail.com> wrote:
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>> The following excerpt is from David Foster Wallace's *Joseph Frank's
>> Dostoevsky*:
>> 
>> Not surprisingly, FMD’s exact beliefs are idiosyncratic and complicated,
>> and Joseph Frank is thorough and clear and detailed in explaining their
>> evolution through the novels’ thematics (as in, e.g., the toxic effects of
>> egoistic atheism on the Russian character in Notes and C&P; the deformation
>> of Russian passion by worldly Europe in The Gambler; and, in The Idiot’s
>> Myshkin and The Brothers Karamazov’s Zossima, the implications of a human
>> Christ subjected literally to nature’s physical forces, an idea central to
>> all the fiction Dostoevsky wrote after seeing Holbein the Younger’s “Dead
>> Christ” at the Basel Museum in 1867).
>> 
>> What does the word "implication" mean here exactly?
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