Chapter 16: 167-174

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country wife, city wife
Pynchon's life values in evidence? He dislikes cities, seen elsewhere.


Bread & Wine, a kindness of the Almighty
Pynchon seeing the Eucharist as a 'kind' way of enacting the body and blood of Christ belief in Christianity. A wonderful trope.


Death or its ev'ryday Coercions...Death's thousand Metaphors
 See this theme in Against the Day; all of the day's necessities that are against the simple living of life...all that is "against the day".

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acted as a Lens, a moral refraction
Once again, light as metaphor, lenses and refraction ala ATD.


see them as they are
Only in death..in life, M & D and everyone struggles to see the heavenly bodies clearly. Nice.

Telluric secrets
telluric adj. Of or relating to Earth; terrestrial. Derived from or containing tellurium, especially with valence 6.

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