Re. GRGR(4) 61.24 Ascent and Sacrifice

[David &/or Jane]

s~Z :
>'The day of Ascent and sacrifice' got me thinking about
>Abraham ascending Moriah to sacrifice Isaac, but I figured
>it would be more true to the text to tie it in with Gottfried's
>ultimate ride. When turning to the end of the book to check out
>that imagery I'll be damned if there isn't a section on Isaac at
>the bottom of page 749 which directly connects the ascent and
>sacrifice of Isaac with Gottfried. And, it all fits nicely with
>Slothrop's toiletrip:  'There is an Aggadic tradition from around
>the 4th century that Isaac, at the moment Abraham was about to
>sacrifice him on Moriah, saw the antechambers of the Throne. For
>the working mystic, having the vision and passing through the
>chambers one by one, is terrible and complex.' Perhaps the novel's
>opening dream and Slothrop's scatological reverie are two such
>pre-sacrificial visions. No substitutionary animal in Pynchworld
>though. The Kid doesn't show. Let the blade fall.

Really a great connection.
The Father sacrificing the Son.
Remember Slothrop's daddy's deal.
It seem Gottfried and Slothrop may have their own parallels.
Which is Issac? Which...?
Blicero, the Witch-Daddy?

Isaac is a figure, typos, of the Christ.  Abraham was to sacrifice the
CHOSEN line (his second son, the first (call me ...) by Hagar, offered be
Rebecca as substitute for her own womb, this sustitute interpreted as an
act of disbelief in God's promise, but such substitutions were "legal")
when bringing the blade down on Isaac.  Isaac was promised years before his
birth to the barren couple, who were prophesied to bear a lineage as vast
in number as the stars in the sky.  The two were about 90 years old (early
Old Testament years) at the time of prophesy.

The UNCHOSEN son, Ishmael, was not appointed to sacrifice.  This seems a
swithceroo on the "only begotten/chosen" lineage Typos.  Legitimate vs.
illegetimate.  Chosen vs. Exiled/Discarded.
David 

David