LPPM MMV "It's All Yours"

[Dave Monroe]

"'It's all yours,' he said. 'You are now the host. As
host you are a trinity: (a) receiver of guests--'
ticking them off on his fingers--'(b) an enemy and (c)
an outward manifestation, for them, of the divine body
and blood.'
   "'Wait a minute,' Siegel said, 'where the hell are
you going?'
   "'The outside,' Lupescu said, 'out of the jungle.'"
(MMV, p. 3)


"It's all yours"

Cf. ...

Hold therefore, Angelo:-- 
In our remove be thou at full ourself; 
Mortality and mercy in Vienna 
Live in thy tongue and heart: old Escalus, 
Though first in question, is thy secondary. 
Take thy commission.  (MM I.i.29-50)

http://the-tech.mit.edu/Shakespeare/measure/measure.1.1.html

http://ise.uvic.ca/Annex/DraftTxt/MM/MM_FScenes/MM_F1.1.html

http://ise.uvic.ca/Annex/DraftTxt/MM/MM_FPages/MM_FF1.html


"As host you are a trinity"

Main Entry: host
Function: noun
Etymology: Middle English hoste host, guest, from Old
French, from Latin hospit-, hospes, probably from
hostis
1 a : one that receives or entertains guests socially,
commercially, or officially b : one that provides
facilities for an event or function ...

Main Entry: host 
Pronunciation: 'hOst
Function: noun
Etymology: Middle English, from Old French, from Late
Latin hostis, from Latin, stranger, enemy -- more at
GUEST
1 : ARMY
2 : a very large number : MULTITUDE

Main Entry: guest 
Pronunciation: 'gest
Function: noun
Etymology: Middle English gest, from Old Norse gestr;
akin to Old English giest guest, stranger, Latin
hostis stranger, enemy ...

Main Entry: host
Function: noun
Usage: often capitalized
Etymology: Middle English hoste, oste, from Middle
French hoiste, from Late Latin & Latin; Late Latin
hostia Eucharist, from Latin, sacrifice
: the eucharistic bread

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

The bread destined to receive Eucharistic Consecration
is commonly called the host, and though this term may
likewise be applied to the bread and wine of the
Sacrifice, it is more especially reserved to the
bread. 

According to Ovid the word comes from hostis, enemy:
"Hostibus a domitis hostia nomen habet", because the
ancients offered their vanquished enemies as victims
to the gods. However, it is possible that hostia is
derived from hostire, to strike, as found in Pacuvius.
In the West the term became general chiefly because of
the use made of it in the Vulgate and the Liturgy ....
It was applied to Christ, the Immolated Victim, and,
by way of anticipation, to the still unconsecrated
bread destined to become Christ's Body. In the Middle
Ages it was also known as "hoiste", "oiste", "oite". 

In time the word acquired its actual special
significance; by reason of its general liturgical use
it no longer conveyed the original idea of victim....

[...]

The preparation of the host gave rise among certain
Gnostic sects to abominable and shocking practices, of
which there is a detailed account in the writings of
St. Epiphanius. Sometimes the flesh of a foetus was
ground and mixed with aromatics; sometimes flour was
kneaded with the blood of a child, and there were
other proceedings too obnoxious to mention. But these
horrors were perpetrated only by a few degraded groups
....

http://www.newadvent.org/cathen/07489d.htm

Note host = guest etymologically (!) ...


"The outside"

Deus absconditus?  Cf. ...

"'By the time of Columbus, God's project of
Disengagement was obvious to all,-- with the terrible
understanding that we were to be left more and more to
our own solutions.'" (M&D, Ch. 50, p. 487)

"Verily thou art a God that hidest thyself, O God of
Israel, the Saviour."  Isaiah 45:15

http://www.bartleby.com/108/23/45.html#S69

The term Deus Absconditus means "hidden God" in Latin
(Isaiah, 45:15 in the Vulgate Bible), and refers to
the view (shared by the Protestant Luther and the
Catholic Pascal) that God had become inaccessible,
hiding himself from the view of sinful humans, and
therefore demanding a challenging existential act of
faith. Predestinarian theology held further that most
people were incapable of perceiving the hidden God,
whose gift of grace permitted the minority of the
"elect" to know him.

http://icg.harvard.edu/~laa72/glossary/deus_absconditus/

http://www.solideogloria.ch/calvin/italiano/deusabsconditus.htm

http://waste.org/mail/?list=pynchon-l&month=0209&msg=70603

Tres gnostique ...


"out of the jungle"

jungle = hothouse?  Cf. Callisto's apartment as a
"hothouse jungle" in "Entropy," Pirate Prentice's
"glass hothouse" in Gravity's Rainbow (p. 5), and, of
course, V. ...

hothouse
"a hothouse sense of time," 57; "having somehow
excaped the hothouse of his fellow Sephardim," 77; "an
anteroom full of tropical hothouse growths," 148;
sphere of influence, 158; "Like Machiavelli he was in
exile, and visited by shadows of rhythm and decay."
160; "a jungle of hothouse flowers," 185; diseased
blooms, 244; "sealed against the present," 305; "the
room, though windowless and cold at night, is a
hothouse. Because the room is the past, though it has
no history of its own [...] a room sealed against the
present," 305; hermetic, 307, 310; hot and airless,
396, 398, 406; "V. was an obsession after all, and
[...] such an obsession is a hothouse: constant
temperature, windless, too crowded with patricolored
sports, unnatural blooms." 448; "As we get older we
skew more toward the past." 470; "Right and Left; the
hothouse and the street. The Right can only live and
work hermetically, in the hothouse of the past, while
outside the Left prosecute their affairs in the
streets by manipulated mob violence. And cannot live
but in the dreamscape of the future." 468; "But
Valletta seemed serene in her own past, in the
Mediterranean womb, in something so insulating that
Zeus himself might once have quarantined her and her
island for an old sin or an older pestilence. So at
peace was Valletta that with the least distance she
would deteriorate to mere spectacle. She ceased to
exist as anything quick or pulsed, and was assumed
again into the textual stillness of her own history."
474; "To enter [...] the hothouse of a Florentine
spring once again [...] a total nostalgic hush rests
on the heart's landscape." 486; "The street and the
hothouse; in V. were resolved by some magic, the two
extremes." 487; 488; "hothouse-time," 489; "He forced
himself into the real present, perhaps aware it would
be his last time there." 490 ...

http://www.hyperarts.com/pynchon/v/alpha/h.html

Yr humble reciever of guests, enemy and/or outward
manifestation of the divine body and blood ...


	
		
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