The Holy KK

[Paul Mackin]

Paul Di Filippo wrote:

> 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....
>
>
Could it be that Slothrop is a figure who has been pretty much emptied 
out in the course of the novel. In other words we would be applying the 
Greek meaning of "kenosis" (evacuation, emptying out) in addition to the 
theological meaning the word seems to be restricted to in English?