VV Notes (Sartre)

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Agnus Dei, qui tollis peccata mundi, dona nobis pacem.
Lamb of God, Who takes away the sins of the world, grant us
peace.

http://www.ampolinstitute.org/rej.html

Oswiecim:  Formerly Ausch·witz, A city of southern Poland
west of Cracow. During World War II it was the site of the
largest Nazi concentration camp. Population, 45,700.

The Chase, Quarry, see Chapter 3, first page, Chase, chased, 


Chapter One Part I of V., Paola. All the Pigs want her. 

When Pig Bodine, with a "diseased baboon fur", "a miasma of
evil", sees the girl, the young Maltese, "the broad" he
eventually "grabs", in the Grave of Sailors, we get this
comment,  

"What was it about the prairie hare in the snow, the tiger
in the tall grass and sunlight?" 

"V. ambiguously a beast of venery"

Interesting paragraph in Chapter 3,   the H---Hare,
Hind, Hart,  V---Venery, Venus, Vener, 
with compressed and succinct allusions to both Golden Bough
and White Goddess...Love, sex, the hunt, and that Love /
Death
(telos?) again, here sex, hunt, kill, sacrifice, rape (Paola
and Pig), and again all the whore, virgin, mother,
stereotypes are played on. 

The word venery means the  Indulgence in or pursuit of
sexual activity. 2. The act of sexual intercourse. [Middle
English venerie, from Old French, from Medieval Latin
veneria, from Latin venus, vener-, desire, love. 

It is also the act or sport of hunting; the chase. [Middle
English venerie, from Old French, from vener, to hunt, See
Wen. 

Theologians and Marx and then Satre.  Yes, that Pig doesn't
know what Platonic means, is also humorous, in that he's
never  interested in Ideal Heroic Love or sexless Platonic
Love, but somebody to Love, to bang. Isn't it? So, Pig don't
know, but maybe Pynchon do and maybe we do too? Sartre is
just a proper name dropped at the Rusty, but wait a minute,
back when I was petitioning the Lord with prayer, I
frequented a Gin Mill called the Rusty Nail, even tried one
once, nasty, never touch the stuff now, woke up in need of
Extreme Unction. It's still there, changed the name now to
the Plato Pit or Den or some such, but one night this dude
with a black beret had a fight with a another guy with a red
scarf.  This old  Jezzy from the Bronx grabbed them both by
the arms and forced them down into a booth, he read them
the  riot act for a good two hours. I can't remember the
half of what he said, but...

"He drew a circle that shut me out." Red complained
"Heretic, rebel, a thing to flout." Barked the Beret

"But Love and I had the wit to win;
We drew a circle and took him in."  

The Jezzy was fond of quotation and dialectic, and it's no
use arguing with a Jezzy from the Bronx, cause if dialectic
don't work, well, just answer me this, ever been slugged by
a Jezzy from the Bronx? 

In any event, I can't remember all what he said, but
something about the human dimension (the existentialist
project) being too absent from Marx. Is that it? Didn't
Sartre complain that contemporary Marxism fails to
understand and account for both human meanings and values,
that material not spiritual (Hegel?), dialectic was
eliminating the questioner from the investigation, and this 
somehow made the question the object of absolute
Knowledge?   

http://jefferson.village.virginia.edu/pmc/text-only/issue.191/trembath.191