Our first outing with the Chums

[Dave Monroe]

--- Joseph Hutchison <joe at jhwriter.com> wrote:

> Here¹s an off-the-wall suggestion: I posted on the
> AtD wiki some possible Mormon sources for ³against
> the day,² and since Independence, MO had been
> revealed to Joseph Smith back in 1831 as the site
> for the city of Zion (the New Jerusalem), perhaps
> the Chums took off from Independence‹a mere 502
> miles from Chicago, which would be reached by
> tacking north and west....

Mormon Sources

The phrase "against the day," which provides the
novel's title, appears on page 805 of the U.S.
edition, and while it may carry biblical overtones, it
perhaps is more directly derived from The Doctrine and
Covenants of the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-Day
Saints.

Specifically, Pynchon embeds "against the day" in a
larger phrase, "prepare them against the day," which
appears in Section 85 of the Doctrine and Covenants,
Verse 3: "It is contrary to the will and commandment
of God that those who receive not their inheritance by
consecration, agreeable to his law, which he has
given, that he may tithe his people, to prepare them
against the day of vengeance and burning, should have
their names enrolled with the people of God."

Section 85 is part of a response by Joseph Smith to
one W. W. Phelps "to answer questions about those
saints who had moved to Zion, but who had not received
their inheritances according to the establish order in
the Church."

Doctrine and Covenants, Section 85

http://scriptures.lds.org/en/dc/85

Other potential Doctrine and Covenants sources include
Section 29, Verse 8 ("the decree hath gone forth from
the Father that they shall be gathered in unto one
place upon the face of this land, to prepare their
hearts and be prepared in all things against the day
when tribulation and desolation are sent forth upon
the wicked") and Section 109, Verse 46 ("Therefore, O
Lord, deliver thy people from the calamity of the
wicked; enable thy servants to seal up the law, and
bind up the testimony, that they may be prepared
against the day of burning").

Doctrine and Covenants, Section 29 and Doctrine and
Covenants, Section 109

http://scriptures.lds.org/en/dc/29

http://scriptures.lds.org/en/dc/109

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

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


 
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