LPPM MMV "His Roommate at College"

[Dave Monroe]

"For this his roommate at college sophomore year had
called him Stephen and taunted him mercilessly about
the still small Jesuit voice which kept him from being
either kicked around or conscious of guilt or simply
ineffective like so many of the other Jewish boys on
campus seemed to Grossmann to be. 'Also, Grossmann,'
Siegel had retorted, 'it perhaps saves me from being a
schmuck like you.' Grossmann would laugh and stick his
nose back in a textbook. 'It is the seed of your
destruction,' he would murmur. 'House divided against
itself? You know.'" (MMV, p. 1)


Stephen

St. Stephen
One of the first deacons and the first Christian
martyr; feast on 26 December. In the Acts of the
Apostles the name of St. Stephen occurs for the first
time on the occasion of the appointment of the first
deacons (Acts, vi, 5). Dissatisfaction concerning the
distribution of alms from the community's fund having
arisen in the Church, seven men were selected and
specially ordained by the Apostles to take care of the
temporal relief of the poorer members. Of these seven,
Stephen, is the first mentioned and the best known. 

http://www.newadvent.org/cathen/14286b.htm

Stephen Dedalus is the main character in James Joyce's
A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man. He is also a
character in Joyce's Ulysses. His surname is a
reference to the mythological figure, Daedalus, who
constructed the labyrinth.

http://encyclopedia.thefreedictionary.com/Stephen%20Dedalus

Thanks again, Terrance ...


Grossmann

"Grossmann" – large man? Big Man on Campus?

http://waste.org/mail/?list=pynchon-l&month=0303&msg=77296

Grossmann = Pynchon?

http://waste.org/mail/?list=pynchon-l&month=0408&msg=92402

Thanks again, John and Paul ...


schmuck

PRONUNCIATION: shmuk 
VARIANT FORMS: also shmuck 
NOUN: Slang A clumsy or stupid person; an oaf.  
ETYMOLOGY: Yiddish shmok, penis, fool, probably from
Polish smok, serpent, tail.  

http://www.bartleby.com/61/84/S0138400.html

Shmuck: another of the many Yiddish words for "penis."
Although it has the same basic meaning as "putz," a
shmuck generally refers to someone with greater power
or social or emotional status.

http://www.bubbygram.com/yiddishglossary.htm

And see as well, e.g., ...

http://www.wordiq.com/definition/Yiddish_language

I would note that this WASN'T glossed at ...

http://hebrew4christians.com/Glossary/Yiddish_Words/yiddish_words.html


"House didvided"

"'A house divided against itself cannot stand.'"

http://www.pbs.org/wgbh/aia/part4/4h2934t.html

Cf. ...

"Every kingdom divided against itself will be laid
waste, and no town or house divided against itself
will stand. And if Satan drives out Satan, he is
divided against himself; how, then, will his kingdom
stand?" (Matthew 12:25-26)

http://www.usccb.org/nab/bible/matthew/matthew12.htm

"If a kingdom is divided against itself, that kingdom
cannot stand. And if a house is divided against
itself, that house will not be able to stand. And if
Satan has risen up against himself and is divided, he
cannot stand; that is the end of him." (Mark 3:24-6)

http://www.usccb.org/nab/bible/mark/mark3.htm

http://www.usccb.org/nab/bible/

On June 16, 1858, at the Illinois Republican
convention in Springfield, Abraham Lincoln kicked off
his bid for the U.S. Senate with a speech that would
come to be known as the "House Divided" speech. 

http://www.pbs.org/wgbh/aia/part4/4h2934.html

Lincoln delivered this famous speech, noted for the
phrase "a house divided against itself cannot stand,"
when accepting the Republican nomination for U.S.
Senate from Illinois in June of 1858. In July of that
year he challenged his Democrat opponent, Stephen
Douglas to a series of debates over admitting Kansas
into the union as a slave state, and, to a large
extent, over the future of slavery and of the union
itself. Lincoln, of course, represented the
anti-slavery position. The skill with which Lincoln
debated Douglas helped catapult him to the Republican
Party's nomination for president in 1860, a race which
he won.

http://www.nationalcenter.org/HouseDivided.html

And see as well ...

http://www.wam.umd.edu/~gaines/00000142.001.html

http://www.wam.umd.edu/~gaines/00000142.001.notes.html

http://usinfo.state.gov/usa/infousa/facts/democrac/22.htm


		
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