Babbiehorn?: Was: a sincere question mostly for roy

David Stockhoff · 19 Nov 2011, 16:06 · from 2011-November.txt.gz

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From: dstockhoff at verizon.net (David Stockhoff)
Date: Sat, 19 Nov 2011 11:06:19 -0500
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On 11/19/2011 10:50 AM, James Wynn wrote:
> On 11/19/2011 9:09 AM, David Stockhoff wrote:
>> Seems to me that whereas spirit, mind, and body are clear divisions
>
> I'm not so sure they are and this appears to be a definite interest 
> for Wolfe.
> When a person suffers a stroke his personality sometimes changes. What 
> will heaven be like when we leave our physical memories behind 
> (remember Wolfe is not a materialist). Some people claim to remember 
> former lives. How does that work? Wolfe is having the Narrator 
> remember but not remember.
>
> And as I said, Wolfe is investigating the Incarnation here. And he's 
> not all that sure about it himself. Orthodox theology rejects the idea 
> of Christ as God "hiding out" in a human body because it makes the 
> scene at Lazarus's tomb and his prayer at Gethsemane and his "My God, 
> my God" statement just theater. And yet you have that foreshadowing of 
> Horn's childhood with the puppet...and that's just the opposite. I 
> think it is a mistake to think that just because Wolfe writes novels 
> investigating identity that he has this idea in his mind of how it works.

OK. But he has to have at least a recognizable basic mechanism, even if 
the details are fuzzy.

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