MDDM Ch. 40 Representation

[Dave Monroe]

"'Suggest you, Sir, even in Play, that this giggling
Rout of poxy half-wits, embody us?  Embody us? 
America but some fairy Emanation, without substance,
that hath pass'd, by Miracle, into them?-- Damme, I
think not,-- Hell were a better Destiny.'
   "'Why,' exclaims the Captain, ''tis the Doctrine of
Transsubstantiation, which bears to the Principle you
speak of, a curious likeness,-- that's of course
considering members of Parliament, like the Bread and
Wine of the Eucharist, to contain, in place of the
Spirit of Christ, the will of the People.'
   "'Then those who gather in Parliaments and
Congresses are no better that Ghosts?-- '
   "'Or no worse,' Mason cannot resist putting in, 'if
we proceed, that is, to Consubstantiation,-- or the
Bread and Wine remaining Bread and Wine, whilst the
spiritual Presence is reveal'd in Parallel Fashion, so
to speak,-- closer to the Parliament we are familiar
with here on Earth, as whatever they may represent,
yet do they remain, dismayingly, Humans as well.'"
(M&D, Ch. 40, p. 404)

America = Ema-Nation ...

   "'Yet Representation must extend beyond simple
Agentry,' protests Patsy, '-- unto at least Mr.
Garrick, who in "representing" a role, becomes the
character, as by some transfer of Soul,-- '
   "'You want someone to go to London and pretend to
be an American who hates stamp'd Paper, something like
that?  Send over Actor-Envoys? 
Stroller-Plenipotentiaries"  Appalling.'
   "'Not that bad a Thought,-- and consider Preachers,
as well.  Mr. Garrick's said to envy Whitfield's knack
for bringing a Congregation to Tears, simply by
pronouncing "Mesopotamia."'" (M&D, Ch. 40, p. 405)


Mr. David Garrick (1717-1779)

http://www.bartleby.com/65/ga/Garrick.html

http://shakespeare.eb.com/shakespeare/micro/227/51.html

http://www.artsworld.com/books-film/biographies/g-i/da-17.html

http://www.classicaltheatre.com/david_garrick_hamlet_article_written_in_1802.htm

http://www.abcgallery.com/H/hogarth/hogarth1.html


Revd. George Whitefield (1714-1770)

"Along with Gilbert Tennant and Jonathan Edwards,
Whitefield was one of the leaders of the Great
Awakening.  The printed texts of his sermons do not
convey what Benjamin Franklin called 'the
extraordinary influence of his oratory': it was said
that Whitefield could make women faint merely by
enunciating the word 'Mesopotamia.'"

http://ware.house.upenn.edu/whitefield.html

http://www.christianword.org/revival/whitefield.html

http://www.reformed.org/documents/Whitefield.html

And see, apparently, p. 70 of ...

Hudson, Winthrop S. and John Corrigan. 
   Religion in America.  NY: Macmillan, 1992.


Transsubstantiation, Consubstantiation

"In the Reformation the leaders generally rejected the
traditional belief in the sacrament as a sacrifice and
as an invisible miracle of the actual changing of the
bread and wine into the body and blood of Christ
(transubstantiation) but retained the belief in it as
mystically uniting the believers with Christ and with
one another. The Lutherans held that there is a change
by which the body and blood of Christ join with the
bread and wine; this principle (consubstantiation) was
rejected by Huldreich Zwingli who, in a controversy
over the sacrament, held that the bread and wine were
only symbolic. Calvinists, on the other hand,
maintained the spiritual, but not the real presence of
Christ in the sacrament. The Church of England
affirmed the real presence but denied
transubstantiation. However, since the Oxford
Movement, Anglicans tend to accept either
transubstantiation or the Calvinist interpretation."

http://www.bartleby.com/65/lo/LordsSup.html

And see as well ...

http://www.newadvent.org/cathen/05573a.htm#3

http://www.newadvent.org/cathen/04322a.htm

http://waste.org/mail/?list=pynchon-l&month=0202&msg=65194&sort=date

http://waste.org/mail/?list=pynchon-l&month=0203&msg=65417&sort=date


Main Entry: rep·re·sent 
Pronunciation: "re-pri-'zent
Function: verb
Etymology: Middle English, from Middle French
representer, from Latin repraesentare, from re- +
praesentare to present
Date: 14th century
transitive senses
1 : to bring clearly before the mind : PRESENT <a book
which represents the character of early America>
2 : to serve as a sign or symbol of <the flag
represents our country>
3 : to portray or exhibit in art : DEPICT
4 : to serve as the counterpart or image of : TYPIFY
<a movie hero who represents the ideals of the
culture>
5 a : to produce on the stage b : to act the part or
role of
6 a (1) : to take the place of in some respect (2) :
to act in the place of or for usually by legal right b
: to serve especially in a legislative body by
delegated authority usually resulting from election
7 : to describe as having a specified character or
quality <represents himself as a friend>
8 a : to give one's impression and judgment of : state
in a manner intended to affect action or judgment b :
to point out in protest or remonstrance
9 : to serve as a specimen, example, or instance of
10 a : to form an image or representation of in the
mind b (1) : to apprehend (an object) by means of an
idea (2) : to recall in memory
11 : to correspond to in essence : CONSTITUTE
intransitive senses : to make representations against
something : PROTEST

Main Entry: rep·re·sen·ta·tion 
Pronunciation: "re-pri-"zen-'tA-sh&n, -z&n-
Function: noun
Date: 15th century
1 : one that represents : as a : an artistic likeness
or image b (1) : a statement or account made to
influence opinion or action (2) : an incidental or
collateral statement of fact on the faith of which a
contract is entered into c : a dramatic production or
performance d (1) : a usually formal statement made
against something or to effect a change (2) : a
usually formal protest
2 : the act or action of representing : the state of
being represented : as a : REPRESENTATIONALISM 2 b (1)
: the action or fact of one person standing for
another so as to have the rights and obligations of
the person represented (2) : the substitution of an
individual or class in place of a person (as a child
for a deceased parent) c : the action of representing
or the fact of being represented especially in a
legislative body
3 : the body of persons representing a constituency

http://m-w.com/cgi-bin/dictionary

Nation, politics as ritual, theater ...

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