The Holy KK

[Bandwraith at aol.com]

In a message dated 9/4/05 10:40:52 AM, pgdf at earthlink.net writes:


> My one insight into the whole Kenosha Kid Affair, offered on the list
> years ago, is that "Kenosha" might be a pun on "kenosis", a theological
> term meaning "the voluntary abasement of the second person of the
> Trinity in becoming  man."  The entries for the words are literally
> adjacent to each other in my Merriam Webster's.  How improbable is it
> that TRP could've stumbled across this conjunction and made use of it?
> 
> As to how the process of kenosis applies to Slothrop, I am less
> clear.
> 

Nice. Slothrop's preparation for his quest- like it or not-
for self-gnossis, in modernist terms, is bound to lead to
to the dissolution of the arbitrary boundary between
himself and everything else. In postmodernist terms he
must drag us with him, over, under, para, and otherwise 
past the "trinity" of the beginning, middle and end of the 
rainbow.

Bandwraith
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