AtDDtA(16): Bilocations

[Dave Monroe]

Three
Bilocations (AtD, Pt. III, p. 429)


Cf. ...

Two
Iceland Spar (AtD, Pt.II, p. 126)

'http://against-the-day.pynchonwiki.com/wiki/index.php?title=I


Bilocation

143; the ability (said of certain Roman Catholic saints) to exist
simultaneously in two locations; "there are two distinct versions of
'Asia' out there" 249; Estrella, double of Stray Briggs, 393; Chums of
Chance and the Marching Academy Harmonica Band, 418-24; "enough to
divide a fellow into two" 464; two Agadirs, 521-22; Stupendica, 514;
Dally, 524; doubling, 564; multiple identities, 570; sawed-in-half
folks, 571-72; Principessa Spongiatosta, 583; Werfner/Renfrew, 683,
685; Orphic and Pythagorean religionns, 686; Lew Basright, 688, 690;
Auberon Halfcourt, 759; the fork in the road, 766; Frank Traverse,
924-925; 990; 1049-50;

http://against-the-day.pynchonwiki.com/wiki/index.php?title=B

Bilocation, sometimes multilocation, or astral projection is a term
used to describe the ability/instances in which an individual or
object is said to be, or appear to be, located in two distinct places
at the same instant in time....

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bilocation

(Latin bis, twice, and locatio, place.)

I. The question whether the same finite being (especially a body) can
be at once in two (bilocation) or more (replication, multilocation)
totally different places grew out of the Catholic doctrine on the
Eucharist....

[...]

II. That bilocation (multilocation) is physically impossible, that is,
contrary to all the conditions of matter at present known to us, is
the practically unanimous teaching of Catholic philosophers in
accordance with universal experience and natural science. As to the
absolute or metaphysical impossibility, that is, whether bilocation
involves an intrinsic contradiction, so that by no exertion even of
Omnipotence could the same body be at once in wholly different
place....

http://www.newadvent.org/cathen/02568a.htm

Cf. ...

"'You are now the host. As host you are a trinity: (a) receiver of
guests--' ticking them off on his fingers--'(b) an enemy and (c) an
outward manifestation, for them, of the divine body and blood.'" (MMV,
p. 3)

http://waste.org/mail/?list=pynchon-l&month=0408&msg=92429

"Meanwhile, back in the torture room, the cardinal is now being forced
to bleed into a chalice and consecrate his own blood, not to God, but
to Satan. They also cut off his big toe, and he is made to hold it up
like a Host and say, 'This is my body,' the keenwitted Angelo
observing that it's the first time he's told anything like the truth
in fifty years of systematic lying. Altogether, a most anti-clerical
scene, perhaps intended as a sop to the Puritans of the time (a
useless gesture since none of them ever went to plays, regarding them
for some reason as immoral)." (Lot 49, Ch. 3, p. 149)

http://amb.cult.bg/american/6/pynchon/lot3.htm

http://www.innternet.de/~peter.patti/thomaspynchon-thecryingoflot49.htm

"... a heavy chalice of methyl methacrylate, a replica of the
Sangraal." (GR, Pt. II, p. 487)

"That's why you see Gnostics so hunted. The sacrament of the Eucharist
is really drinking the blood of the enemy. The Grail, the Sangraal, is
the bloody vehicle...." (GR, Pt. IV, p. 739)

http://against-the-day.pynchonwiki.com/wiki/index.php?title=%22bloodline_of_my_enemy%22_DISCUSSION

"Is this, like the Bread and Wine, a kindness of the Almighty, sparing
him a sight he could not have abided?  What might that be, too
merciless to bear?" (M&D, Ch. 16, p. 171)

http://waste.org/mail/?list=pynchon-l&month=0111&msg=62840

"'... the birth of the "Sandwich," at this exact moment in
Christianity,-- one of the Noble and Fallen for its Angel!  Disks of
secular Bread,-- enclosing whilst concealing slices of real Flesh, yet
a-sop with Blood, under the earthly guise of British Beef, all,-- but
for the Species of course,-- Consubstantiate, thus...the Sandwich,
Eucharist of this our Age.'" (M&D, Ch. 36, p. 367)

http://waste.org/mail/?list=pynchon-l&month=0202&msg=65194

http://waste.org/mail/?list=pynchon-l&month=0203&msg=65343

"... 'if we proceed, that is, to Consubstantiation,-- or the Bread and
Wine remaining Bread and Wine, whilst the spiritual Presence is
reveal'd in Parallel Fashion, so to speak,-- closer to the Parliament
we are familiar with here on Earth, as whatever they may represent,
yet do they remain, dismayingly, Humans as well.'" (M&D, Ch. 40, p.
404)

http://waste.org/mail/?list=pynchon-l&month=0203&msg=66015

http://waste.org/mail/?list=pynchon-l&month=0203&msg=66078

And see as well, e.g., ...

http://waste.org/mail/?list=pynchon-l&month=0110&msg=61329

http://waste.org/mail/?list=pynchon-l&month=0203&msg=65417

http://waste.org/mail/?list=pynchon-l&month=0203&msg=65924

http://waste.org/mail/?list=pynchon-l&month=0203&msg=65962

Thanks as always, Kai, Robert, Terrance, et al. ...

... and, sure, there are other types of bilocation to consider here,
but do note that Pynchon has been deploying Eucharistic tropes
throughout his career in fiction (at very least), and as often as not,
as they long have been, in relation to issues of language, aesthetics,
politics ("representation" all 'round, for starters; incarnation,
resurrection).  And then there's, say, quantum physics, science
fiction, u.s.w., et soforthiam, but ...

Well, do see also, for starters ...

http://waste.org/mail/?list=pynchon-l&month=0610&msg=109123

http://waste.org/mail/?list=pynchon-l&month=0612&msg=112621

http://waste.org/mail/?list=pynchon-l&month=0703&msg=115964

http://waste.org/mail/?list=pynchon-l&month=0703&msg=116588

http://waste.org/mail/?list=pynchon-l&month=0707&msg=120312

Thanks Tore, Laura, Monte, Sam, Glenn, et al. ...

At any rate ...

"It's now Section Three, 'Bilocations.' The prefix bi- means two, of
course, which makes perfect sense to us, having discussed this theme
for months now. Presumably, we'll be seeing how this duple notion
applies to the physical world. Will it mean two separate places,
linked somehow? Parallel-worlds? Or, the phenomenon of a single being
occupying two different places (or even times or dimensions)
simultaneously? Guess we'll have to read on to find out."

I suppose keeping an eye out any imagery suggesting two-ness would be
a good idea....

http://chumpsofchoice.blogspot.com/2007/04/subdesertine-adventures.html

Indeed it would, is, and will be ...