GRGR(17) The act of "bad" naming

[David Morris]

>From: jp4321 at idt.net
>
>At this late date- the post, post, post, POST modern read through of GR, it
>occurs to me that august foax like Prof. Krafft, Weisenburger, even our own
>redbug are, in a way, what "gospel" is to St. Thomas or Gnosticism.

Please. A-and Sorry, but... I see no comprehensive grasp from this seat, all 
respect to the above.
[snip]

>I think Pynchon might be serving up a little para able on this theme, with
>the introduction of the duplicitouly coined  "Saure" Bummer, who shares
>mind with Slothrop to *jointly* conceive of the misbegotten: "Raketmensch."
>Counting up the score, that would be an impressive dis'ing of LSD, ESP,
>Marijuana, and, with a stretch, the gnostic interpretation of the material
>world and it's forces as an "abortion," in one fell swoop. All avenues of
>transcendence, that have, in one way or another, been given a bad name.

Funny, I read the exact opposite attitude in this segment: veneration of the 
root.

>I won't stretch it- via my own highly unorthodox, underground and
>illiterary critical technique- derisively known 'round these parts as-
>"literary quantum tunneling-" [snip]

Quantum, squantum.  Or is it Squanto, Pilgrim?  You nail the Orthodox.  I'll 
jump out of the way of the hammer.

Smoke'em if you've got'em,
David Morris

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