The Holy KK

[Paul Mackin]

Dave Monroe wrote:

>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. 
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It's only a special brand of p-list flim-flam patent pending. You got to 
admire the energy expended.

>  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  ...
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>http://waste.org/mail/?list=pynchon-l&month=0509&msg=9737
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>http://waste.org/mail/?list=pynchon-l&month=0509&msg=97388
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>... 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. ...
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>"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)
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>And so forth.  Resonances, echolalia ...
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>--- jbor at bigpond.com wrote:
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>>... 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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