The Holy KK

[Dave Monroe]

Robt. pretends he doesn't read my posts, but he's as
often as not responding to them, and not even all that
obliquely.  In fact, I'd venture that, had I not
seconded PDF's nomination there, he might well be
enthusiastically agreeing right now.  Such are the
personaly politicks here on the P-List.   Anyway, as
with a joke, perhaps one either gets an allusion, or
one does not, and we do know that there are those who
lack conspicuously a sense of humor, so  ...

http://waste.org/mail/?list=pynchon-l&month=0509&msg=9737

http://waste.org/mail/?list=pynchon-l&month=0509&msg=97388

... again, emptying, the end of a cycle, "noxious and
defiling effects," becoming, Incarnation vs. 
Resurrection (kenosis as countergnosticism), this
world vs. the otherworldy, et al. ...

"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)

And so forth.  Resonances, echolalia ...

--- jbor at bigpond.com wrote:

> ... I'm sure I'm not the only one having a tough
> time seeing how "kenosis" (a great word, to be sure)
> relates to the actual episode, or to Slothrop, or
> to the text in general. It might help if someone
> would try to explain it.


	
		
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