The Heresy Question
David Morris
fqmorris at yahoo.com
Wed Apr 23 10:45:57 CDT 2003
> Main Entry: her·e·sy
> Etymology: Middle English heresie, from Old French, from Late Latin haeresis,
from Late Greek hairesis, from Greek, action of taking, choice, sect, from
hairein to take
"Others see a Gnostic or Cathar symbol for the Church of Rome, and this
is generalized to mean any System that cannot tolerate heresy: a system
which by its nature, must sooner or later fall. We know by now that it
is also the Rocket."
The Heresy question in the present section seems to be what FR is
discussing/preaching: How to bring down the System, and even more so if it is
even possible. What heresy should be employed? FR suggests that the bottom
line should be martyrdom, denying Them the fear that keeps Them alive, our fear
of death.
Heresy is also very blatantly associated with Christ, Salvation, or maybe the
Anti-Christ, Perdition: "perhaps the rock on which it (the Convention) will
founder." Again, the question is about the means of opposing the System, and
whether it will fall on its own, eventually, or as FR suggests, "Critical Mass"
has been achieved, and the system will NOT fall to a natural dialectic end, as
the quote above says is inevitable.
So “Heresy” has a second meaning in the context of the preaching of “Critical
Mass,” which amongst these frolicking double agents is itself a heresy which
they’d rather not contemplate.
David Morris
__________________________________________________
Do you Yahoo!?
The New Yahoo! Search - Faster. Easier. Bingo
http://search.yahoo.com
More information about the Pynchon-l
mailing list