The Holy KK

[Dave Monroe]

I recall that one as well.  Not improbable at all,
those Pynchonian texts abound with dictionary-level
research.  Here's some Google-level research ...

Kenosis

A term derived from the discussion as to the real
meaning of Phil. 2:6 sqq.: "Who being in the form of
God, thought it not robbery to be equal with God: But
emptied [ekenosen] himself, taking the form of a
servant, being made in the likeness of men, and in
habit found as man."

http://www.newadvent.org/cathen/08617a.htm

Kenosis
General Information

Theodor H Gaster has pointed out two basic movements
in rituals. The first he refers to as rituals of
Kenosis, or emptying; the other, as rituals of
Plerosis, or filling. Rituals of Kenosis portray the
evacuating of the meaning of time as it approaches the
end of a cycle. The wearing down of time at this
moment produces noxious and defiling effects, and thus
the appropriate response is an ascetic form of
behavior accompanied with austerities. In the rituals
of Plerosis, the filling of time or the beginning
again of the new time, dramas of excess and
overabundance of power are portrayed in the rituals.
Specific dramatic roles in these rituals imitate the
power of deities in bringing about the renewal of the
time of the cosmos.

Kenosis, Kenotic Theology
Advanced Information

"Kenosis" is a Greek term taken from Phil. 2:7, where
Christ is spoken of as having "emptied himself" (RSV)
and taken human form. There has been much discussion
about this entire crucial passage (2:6 - 11), and
several interpretations exist today. Kenotic theology
is a theology that focuses on the person of Christ in
terms of some form of self - limitation by the
preexistent Son in his becoming man....

http://mb-soft.com/believe/txn/kenosis.htm

   "As some secrets were given to the Gypsies to
preserve against centrifugal History, and some to the
Kabbalists, the Templars, the Rosicrucians, so have
this Secret of the Fearful Assembly, and others, found
their ways inside the weatherless spaces of this or
that Ethnic Joke. There is also the story of Tyrone
Slothrop, who was sent into the Zone to be present at
his own assembly--perhaps, heavily paranoid voices
have whispered, his time's assembly--and there ought
to be a punch line to it, but there isn't. The plan
went wrong. He is being broken down instead, and
scattered." (GR, Pt. IV, pp. 737-8)

Recall also Harold Bloom, The Anxiety of Influence
(New York: Oxford UP, 1973) ...

   3. Kenosis, a rejection of, or a purposive movement
toward discontinuity with, the ancestor to avoid a
foolish consistency ...

http://prelectur.stanford.edu/lecturers/bloom/excerpts/anxiety.html

http://www.vheissu.org/art/art_eng_dante_hollander.htm

At any rate, all very good, thanks again ...

--- Bandwraith at aol.com wrote:
> 
> 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-gnosis, in modernist terms, is
> bound to lead to to the dissolution of the arbitrary
> boundary between himself and everything else....


		
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