ATD: cover: "seal"

[pynchonoid]

Excellent! 

In China, and other countries that use Chinese
characters for writing, it's common to have one's name
(usually two characters) carved into a soapstone
cylinder, and use this "seal" or "chop" (as it's also
known) to sign documents or otherwise leave a formal
mark or signature.  

>From this perspective, *perhaps* Pynchon has stamped
his latest novel with a chop or seal in similar
fashion.


--- Ya Sam <takoitov at hotmail.com> wrote:

> The front page is sealed with the Tibetan seal, so
> that might be read as 
> "Sealed against the day".
> 
> From The Bible: "Do nothing to sadden the Holy
> Spirit with whom you were 
> sealed against the day of redemption” (Eph. 4:30). "

This may indeed be the Biblical "against the day" that
Pynchon has in mind.  Ephesians has a passage about
donning one spiritual armor to do battle with the
Devil, too, if I'm remembering correctly, that has
become a mainstay for "spiritual warfare"
fundamentalists.



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