TPPM _The Gift_: Study of the word "gift" on Internet

[Glenn Scheper]

http://www.pynchon.pomona.edu/uncollected/gift.html

Since nowhere in the body of text is the idea of
donation, to reflect gift appearing in the title,
I studied what the web says "The Gift" might mean.

In my polite, avoidant, youth, I learned to say NO
to every offer, before even cognizing the proffered
gift, before knowing whether I really desired it.

Gift of course has an onus of reciprocation, and
of heirarchy, as is described of Indian potlach,
and reflected in a German cognate inversion Gift
(Das Gift?), which means poison.

After hard surfing on Pynchon, Gift and retaining
pages with appearance of "The Gift", (next I will
do just "Gift") and "Pynchon", then ranking them
that contained the most, by the freeware command:
wh -r "the gift" pynchon > wo
and picking out just lines of interest, aside from
web pages merely mentioning this title, yielded:

http://www.reconstruction.ws/021/Haunting.htm
_Haunting and Hunting: Bodily Resurrection and the Occupation of History in Thomas Pynchon's Mason & Dixon_
crusader and trader alike the gift of eternal life. Instead 

http://www.themodernword.com/pynchon/pynchon_music_jazz-butcher.html
_Pynchon - Music: Jazz Butcher_
er. Called Big Questions (The Gift of Music Volume 2), Glass

http://www.pynchon.pomona.edu/entropy/col2.html
_COL49: Maxwell's Demon and the Entropy of Memory_
on with a person who has "the gift" -- a "sensitive" who act

http://vos.ucsb.edu/browse.asp?id=2741
_VoS - Voice of the Shuttle_
excerpts) (Trevor Dodge) "The Gift of Disease" (1996) ("I am

http://www.logan.com/loganberry/solved-g.html
_Loganberry Books: Solved Mysteries: G_
 Lois Duncan, A Gift of Magic. 'To the oldest girl I give the
 gift of dance. To the boy I give the gift of music, and to
 the girl, the one that looks like me, I give the gift of...

http://www.6b7.com/i_am_writing.htm
_i am writing_
id so to the presenter of the gift, but was unsure about its
m as if I am trivializing the gift and this writing, or mayb
ly deserving recipient of the gift. The reason is that once 

http://www.exclusivebooks.com/features/mustread/gravitysrainbow.php?Tag=&CID=
_Exclusive Books - Gravity's Rainbow_
the main character is has the gift of precognition in that e

http://easybakecoven.net/2003/11/good-morning.html
_Easy Bake Coven // Does This Blog Make My Ass Look Big?_
t family together and use the gift money for a trip on Chris

http://www.hyperarts.com/pynchon/gravity/alpha/e.html
_Gravity's Rainbow - Thomas Pynchon_
r each gifted & flawed by the gift, 675; icebox, 678; "They'

http://writersalmanac.publicradio.org/docs/04_05_03.htm
_The Writer's Almanac - MAY 3-MAY 9, 2004_
rong number of fingers or the gift of loving; we must do our

http://www.stlawu.edu/giving/leadtrus2.html
_St. Lawrence University: Giving to St. Lawrence_
 is used mostly to reduce the gift and estate tax on propert
 deduction at the time of the gift for the value of the annu

http://www.rotary7910.org/brookline/aug30.html
at she had not know about the GIFT OF LIFE Program before, o

http://www.hotink.com/81a97.html
_Hot Ink_
ck Amazon Price: $21.00 8 THE GIFT OF FEAR : Listening to th

http://www.hyperarts.com/pynchon/v/alpha/p-q.html
_V. - Thomas Pynchon_
during which some receive the gift of tongues (Acts ii, 1-4)
r box of evils to balance the gift of fire. Ptolemy Philopat

http://www.hyperarts.com/pynchon/v/alpha/t.html
_V. - Thomas Pynchon_
e alligator would receive the gift of tongues," 122; Profane
" 457; "tongues of flame, the gift of tongues: Pentecost." 4

http://www.hyperarts.com/pynchon/gravity/alpha/d.html
_Gravity's Rainbow - Thomas Pynchon_
o Italy and then Sicily; "the gift of Daedalus that allowed 

http://multiple.insertions.com/mi_html/cyber/media/02a.htm
_MI: CYBER: MEDIA: INSOMNIA: BookPress_
 collage, glass, ceramics The Gift Shop features: Cruelty-fr

http://www.hyperarts.com/pynchon/v/extra/savonarola.html
_V. - Thomas Pynchon_
rigorism and his claim to the gift of prophecy led to his be

http://www.hyperarts.com/pynchon/gravity/alpha/g.html
_Gravity's Rainbow - Thomas Pynchon_
reatures of God, and have the gift of rational discourse" 11

Yours truly,
Glenn Scheper
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