TPPM _The Gift_: On non-Pynchon related "gift" on Internet

Glenn Scheper glenn_scheper at earthlink.net
Tue Sep 7 08:09:40 CDT 2004


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

I see I only scratched the surface on non-pynchon use of GIFT.
More ideas by surfing Solzhenitsyn or Casteneda, and searching
'gift' in the results I will omit. But this page was noteable:

http://www.heaven-words.com/55.htm
Breakdown of madness dawns on genius of collective consciousness


A couple more came up in surfing while I was waiting to post:


http://www.goroadachi.com/etemenanki/endgame-2-p1.htm
 The term 'Babel' denotes 'confusion', which in turn relates to the word
 Kabalah/Kabbalah that similarly implies confusion; and, to corroborate
 the underlying theme, the latter also happens to denote 'that which is
 received', i.e. 'gift'. [8]
 
 [8] Gardner, Genesis of the Grail Kings, p.137;
 Robert Eisenman, James the Brother of Jesus
 (New York: Penguin Books, 1998), p.133.


http://www.cuttingedge.org/news/n1843.cfm
 ["Depleted Uranium: America's Military 'Gift'
 That Keeps on Giving", By Dan Fahey, L.A. Times, 2/18/01.


Yours truly,
Glenn Scheper
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