MDDM Christ & History

[Otto]

Christ is only insofar mentioned as the "Manifest Destiny" rests upon the
Christian belief.

When I said "textpiece" I meant that and not headline or postscript.

History is not mentioned? I read it twice. What goes for history in general
of course goes for American history as well -- mostly myths and fairytales.

Otto

----- Original Message -----
From: Terrance <lycidas2 at earthlink.net>
To: <pynchon-l at waste.org>
Sent: Tuesday, February 19, 2002 12:36 PM
Subject: Re: MDDM Christ & History
>
>
> Otto wrote:
> >
> > No Christ at all in this textpiece, but a lot on American history:
> >
> > "Facts are but the Play-things of lawyers,-- Tops and Hoops, forever
> > a-spin... Alas, the Historian may indulge no such idle Rotating. History
is
> > not Chronology, for that is left to lawyers, -- nor is it Remembrance,
for
> > Remembrance belongs to the People. History can as little pretend to the
> > Veracity of the one, as claim the Power of the other,-- her
Practitioners,
> > to survive, must soon learn the arts of the quidnunc, spy, and Taproom
> > Wit,-- that there may ever continue more than one life-line back into a
Past
> > we risk, each day, losing our forebears in forever,-- not a Chain of
single
> > Links, for one broken Link could lose us All,-- rather, a great
disorderly
> > Tangle of Lines, long and short, weak and strong, vanishing into the
> > Mnemonick Deep, with only their Destination in common." (349)
>

Terrance wrote:
> In my book, on the same page, it also reads as above, but with one
> difference, it continues with one more line:
>
> --The REVd Wicks Cherrycoke, Christ and History
>
> Christ is in the text piece. In fact, Christ is in the title of the text
> piece.
>
> Also, American history is not mentioned at all in the passage.