VLVL2 (9.5): "Under Pain of the Most Major Sanctions"

[Dave Monroe]

"'You deserve each other.  Therefore you, Sister
Darryl Louise, under pain of the most major sanctions,
are commanded to become this fool's devoted little, or
in your case big, sidekick and try to balance your
karmic account by working off the great wrong you have
done him ... is there anything you'd like to add on?'
   "'No sex,' stipulated DL.  Takeshi began to squawk.
'And when is 'is jail sentence up?' she also wanted to
know.

[...]

   "Light applause from the shaded edges of the
courtyard, where in twos and threes curious ninjettes
had been pacing, whispering, touching.  'And now,'
Rochelle nodding to Takeshi, 'we'd better see about
bringing you, back to life.  sister DL, you might want
to observe.'" (VL, Ch. 9, p. 163)


"under pain of the most major sanctions"

Cf. ...

Monty Python and the Holy Grail (

DINGO: Oh, wicked, bad, naughty Zoot! She has been
setting alight to our beacon, which, I have just
remembered, is grail-shaped. It's not the first time
we've had this problem.

GALAHAD: It's not the real Grail?
 
DINGO: Oh, wicked, bad, naughty, evil Zoot! She is a
bad person and must pay the penalty! 

[...]

DINGO: [sigh] [clunk] Oh, wicked, wicked Zoot. Oh, she
is a naughty person and she must pay the penalty, and
here in Castle Anthrax, we have but one punishment for
setting alight the grail-shaped beacon: you must tie
her down on a bed and spank her.

GIRLS: A spanking! A spanking!

DINGO: You must spank her well, and after you have
spanked her, you may deal with her as you like, and
then, spank me.

AMAZING: And spank me.

STUNNER: And me.

LOVELY: And me.

DINGO: Yes. Yes, you must give us all a good spanking!

GIRLS: A spanking! A spanking! There is going to be a
spanking tonight!

DINGO: And after the spanking, the oral sex.

GIRLS: The oral sex! The oral sex!

GALAHAD: Well, I could stay a bit longer.

http://arago4.tn.utwente.nl/stonedead/movies/holy-grail/scene-11.html

And see as well ...

http://en2.wikipedia.org/wiki/Castle_Anthrax


"devoted little, or in your case big, sidekick"

Main Entry: side·kick 
Pronunciation: 'sId-"kik
Function: noun
Date: 1906
: a person closely associated with another as
subordinate or partner

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

Cf., e.g., ...

"Hector's eyes were moist, and popping out some. 
'Not too good, li'l buddy.'" (VL, Ch. 3, p. 26)

http://waste.org/mail/?list=pynchon-l&month=0308&msg=84433&sort=date


"karmic account"

Main Entry: kar·ma 
Pronunciation: 'kär-m& also 'k&r-
Function: noun
Etymology: Sanskrit karma fate, work
Date: 1827
1 often capitalized : the force generated by a
person's actions held in Hinduism and Buddhism to
perpetuate transmigration and in its ethical
consequences to determine the nature of the person's
next existence
2 : VIBRATION 4
- kar·mic  /-mik/ adjective

http://m-w.com/cgi-bin/dictionary?book=Dictionary&va=karmic

In Buddhist teaching, the law of karma, says only
this: 'for every event that occurs, there will follow
another event whose existence was caused by the first,
and this second event will be pleasant or unpleasant
according as its cause was skillful or unskillful.' A
skillful event is one that is not accompanied by
craving, resistance or delusions; an unskillful event
is one that is accompanied by any one of those things.


Therefore, the law of Karma teaches that
responsibility for unskillful actions is born by the
person who commits them....

http://www.ncf.carleton.ca/freenet/rootdir/menus/sigs/religion/buddhism/introduction/truths/karma2.html

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