M&D - Tyburn Tree 'resurrections'

[David Morris]

Three days times three equals absolute completion.
Ain't no way to resurrect.  He's gone.
Lord Almighty, keep him down in the hole!


>From: "bruce sublett" <bsublett at angelina.cc.tx.us>
>To: "Pynchon-L" <Pynchon-L at waste.org>
>Subject: Re: M&D - Tyburn Tree 'resurrections'
>Date: Fri, 17 Sep 1999 08:13:39 -0500
>
>Perhaps the prototype is Odin, who hangs nine days and nights from
>Yggdrasill and is pierced by a spear, a sacrifice to himself.  In Kevin
>Crossley-Holland's _The Norse Myths__ , chapter 4 is "Lord of the Gallows,"
>Odin's account of the mysteries he learned by dying on the tree and
>resurrecting himself.  In much Northern legend, the gallows is referred to
>as "Odin's horse."
>
>BS

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