Pentecost

[Paul Mackin]

That 50 days into the liturgical year as reaching the majority needed
to grasp power (suggested by Heikki) hadn't occurred to me.

I like it, even though it posits more efficacy to electoral
politics than many p-listers would admit.

And yes it does tie in with Lot 49.

Don't know much of Joachim's Trinitarian theory of history but do
remember that in the time of the Holy Spirit the tired old forms
dating from the Father and the Son can be expected to be  replaced
by vital new ones. In other words, the Counterforce.

Not to carry this too far, I wonder if "American Pie" (apple most
likely) doesn't have previously unexplored meaning.

The three men I admire most,
The Father, Son, and Holy Ghost,
Just caught the last train for the coast,
The day the music died.

Bye, Bye, etc., etc,.

Now if Henry tell us this is the anniversary of . . .

Please forgive this last silliness.

				P.
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> From: hankhank at ccwf.cc.utexas.edu
> To: Paul Mackin <mackin at allware.com>
> Cc: pynchon-l at waste.org
> Subject: Pentecost
> Date: Wednesday, January 29, 1997 6:59 PM
> 
> 
> Your references to Whitsunday or Pentecost prompted me to think a new
> meaning (to me at least) of this "50th" so important to _Lot 49_, too. 
> 
> 49 turning 50 could also be understood as percentages? 
> 
> Suppressed people becoming powerful when they surpass the 50% limit?
> But of course, this never happens inside _Lot 49_; the novel is not
> revolutionary romantic. But not anti-romantic, either, in my opinion.
> 
> Heikki
>