VLVL2 (9.5): "This Is Important"

[Dave Monroe]

"'This is important, so listen up.  It takes place in
the Garden of Eden.  Back then, long ago, there were
no men at all.  Paradise was female.  Eve and her
sister, Lilith, were alone in the Garden.  A character
named Adam was put into the story later, to help make
men look more legitimate, but in fact the first man
was not Adam--it was the Serpent.'
   "'I like this story,' said Takeshi, snuggling into
his pillow.
   "'It was sleazy, slippery man,' Rochelle continued,
'who invented "good" and "evil," where before women
had been content to just be.  In among the other
confidence games they were running on women at the
time, men also convinced us that we were the natural
administrators of this thing "morality" they'd just
invented.  They dragged us all down into this wreck
they'd made of the Creation, all subdivided and
labeled, handed us the keys to the church, and headed
off toward the dance halls and the honky-tonk
saloons.'" (VL, Ch. 9, p. 166)


Genesis 2:1-3:24

http://www.bartleby.com/108/01/2.html#S2

http://www.bartleby.com/108/01/3.html#S3


Lilith

http://www.webcom.com/~gnosis/lillith.html

http://ccat.sas.upenn.edu/~humm/Topics/Lilith/

http://www.webwinds.com/thalassa/adameve.htm#Lilith

http://www.shmooze.com/lilith/resources/lilithsources.shtml

The story of Lilith is not actually found in any
authentic Rabbinic tradition. Although it is
repeatedly cited as a "Rabbinic legend" or a
"midrash," it is not recorded in any ancient Jewish
text!

The tale of Lilith originates in a medieval work
called "the Alphabet of Ben-Sira," a work whose
relationship to the conventional streams of Judaism
is, to say the least, problematic

http://www.ucalgary.ca/~elsegal/Shokel/950206_Lilith.html

The Alphabet of Ben Sira Question #5 (23a-b)

http://ccat.sas.upenn.edu/~humm/Topics/Lilith/alphabet.html

Sr. Rochelle rewriting ALL the myths.  See also ...

Pagels, Elaine.  Adam, Eve, and the Serpent.
   New York: Pantheon, 1989.


"who invented 'good' and 'evil'"

Friedrich Nietzsche, Beyond Good and Evil (1886)

http://www.geocities.com/thenietzschechannel/bge.htm

http://www.marxists.org/reference/subject/philosophy/works/ge/nietzsc1.htm

http://onlinebooks.library.upenn.edu/webbin/gutbook/lookup?num=4363


"natural administrators"

See, e.g., ...

Auerbach, Nina.  Woman and the Demon: The Life of a
   Victorian Myth. Cambridge, MA: Harvard UP, 1982.


"this wreck they'd made of creation, all subdivided
and labeled"

Cf. ...

"There has been this strange connection between the
German mind and the rapid flashing of successive
stills to counterfeit movement, for at least two
centuries since Leibniz, in the process of inventing
calculus, used the same approach to break up the
trajectories of cannonballs through the air. And now
Pokler was about to be given proof that these
techniques had been extended past images on film, to
human lives." (GR, p. 406-7)

http://www.2street.com/cyborg/pynch1.htm

http://www.2street.com/cyborg/porn.htm

"He ordered the Health Food Enchilada Special and
Hector had the soup of the day, cream of zucchini, and
the vegetarian tostada, which upon its arrival he
began to take apart piece by piece and reassemble as
something else Zoyd could not identify but which
seemed to hold meaning for Hector.
   "'Lookit that, lookit your food, Hector, what have
you done?'" (VL, Ch. 3, p. 25)

http://waste.org/mail/?list=pynchon-l&month=0308&msg=84627&sort=date

See perhaps, e.g., ...

Kristeva, Julia.  Revolution in Poetic Language.
   Trans. Margaret Waller.  NY: Columbia UP, 1984.


And see as well ...

http://waste.org/mail/?list=pynchon-l&month=9811&msg=33783&sort=date

http://waste.org/mail/?list=pynchon-l&month=9811&msg=33850&sort=date

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