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Carpaccio
Vittore Carpaccio (c.1460–1525/6) was a Venetian painter who studied under
Gentile Bellini. He is best known for a cycle of nine paintings, The Legend
of Saint Ursula.

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

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The Lion of St. Mark, by Carpaccio
http://against-the-day.pynchonwiki.com/wiki/index.php?title=Image:Stmarklion.jpg

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winged lion
Lion of St. Mark by Carpaccio
Vittore Carpaccio (c.1460–1525/6) was a Venetian painter.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Vittore_Carpaccio
*wiki*

See also:
http://venicexplorer.net/tradizione/festa-san-marco/slides/leone-porta-della-carta.php
http://venicexplorer.net/tradizione/festa-san-marco/slides/leone-palazzo-ducale.php

Mark was associated with the lion because of his description of John the
Baptist "crying out in the wilderness" (Mark 1:3), or "like a lion roaring",
and a *winged* lion because of the description by Ezekiel of four winged
creatures representing four evangelists (Ezekiel 1:10).

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Four_Evangelists
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Image:Codexaureus_21.jpg

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Porta della carta
Once the main entrance to the Doge's palace, constructed in the 15th
century.

http://venicexplorer.net/tradizione/festa-san-marco/slides/02-porta-della-carta.php

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aptotic
Ap*tot"ic (#), a. Pertaining to, or characterized by, aptotes; uninflected;
as, aptotic languages.
[1913 Webster]

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"I was also the winged Lion"
Mirrored

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The Book
The Book of Promises
The Bible's Old Testament is often thought by Christians as a book of
promises fulfilled by Christ.  See esp Isaiah 9:2-7, 2 Peter 1:12-21

http://www.biblegateway.com/passage/?search=Isaiah%209.2-7;&version=31;
http://www.biblegateway.com/passage/?search=2%20Peter%201.12-21;&version=31;

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"'here would thou our visitor's body rest,' here in some wet salt desert"
Venice?  Alexandria?  Jerusalem?  I don't friggin' know.

And why the quotes around 'here would thou our visitor's body rest'?  Speak
up.

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the Evangelist
John, Luke, Matthew, and Mark were called the four Evangelists
(Gospel-writers)

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"he was for Alexandria"
"he knew his fate lay there"
the Prilgrimage

Mark traveled to Alexandria and established a church there, thus considered
the founder of Christianity in Africa.  He also died there.

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our own duty, our own fate... the real journey
Pynchon's one-paragraph summation of human life and its meaning recalls a
letter Pynchon wrote in the early 1960s, The World is at Fault (
http://against-the-day.pynchonwiki.com/wiki/index.php?title=The_World_is_at_Fault),
in which he also summed up the entirety of human life in a few tidy
sentences. Both employ the word 'pilgrimage.'
*wiki*

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"fragments of any True Cross"
The True Cross is the name for those physical remnants and the subject of
those literary records which, by a widely accepted Christian tradition, are
believed to be those of the cross upon which, according to the Gospel
writers, Jesus was crucified.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/True_Cross

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Franciscans
The term Franciscan is used to refer to those in Roman Catholic religious
orders which follow a body of regulations known as "The rule of St.
Francis", or a member of one of these orders. There are also small Old
Catholic and Protestant Franciscan communities.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Franciscans

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the Stations of the Cross
The Stations of the Cross (or Way of the Cross; in Latin, Via Crucis; also
called the Via Dolorosa or Way of Sorrows, or simply, The Way) refers to the
depiction of the final hours (or Passion) of Jesus, and the devotion
commemorating the Passion. The tradition exists in Roman Catholicism,
Anglican, and Lutheranism. It may be done at any time, but is most commonly
done during the Season of Lent, especially on Good Friday and on Friday
evenings during Lent.

The object of the Stations is to help the faithful to make a spiritual
pilgrimage of prayer to the chief scenes of Christ's sufferings and death,
and this has become one of the most popular devotions for Roman Catholics
and Eastern Orthodox (but only those of the Western Rite).

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

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"to allow any parishioner to journey to Jerusalem without leaving his
church-grounds"
"a circuit of humble images reflecting a glory greater than we can imagine"
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