Atdtda22: [43.4i] Belonging, 624

[Mark Kohut]

Also, page 624....FYI
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A Keisaku stick with Calligraphy.
In Zen Buddhism, the keisaku (Japanese: 警策; kyosaku in the Soto school) is a flat wooden stick or slat used during periods of meditation to remedy sleepiness or lapses of concentration. This is accomplished through a strike or series of strikes, usually administered on the meditator's back and shoulders in the muscular area between the shoulder blades the the spine. The keisaku itself is thin and somewhat flexible; strikes with it, though they may cause momentary sting if performed vigorously, are not injurious. The impact, producing a sharp sound, is generally considered exhilarating.
The word "Keisaku" may be translated as "warning stick". "Encouragement stick" is a common translation for "kyosaku ". In Soto Zen, the Kyosaku is always administered at the request of the meditator, by way of bowing one's head and putting the palms together in gassho, and then exposing each shoulder to be struck in turn. In Rinzai Zen, the stick is requested in the same manner, but may also be used at the discretion of the Ino, the one in charge of the meditation hall. Even in such cases, it is not considered a punishment, but a compassionate means to reinvigorate and awaken the meditator who may be tired from many sessions of zazen.



----- Original Message ----
From: Paul Nightingale <isread at btinternet.com>
To: pynchon-l at waste.org
Sent: Thursday, November 22, 2007 12:04:13 AM
Subject: Atdtda22: [43.4i] Belonging, 624

[624.22-23] "... and 'Traverse', what sort of name ... you are not also
Hebraic, by any chance?"

Cf. Colfax on 318: "I say Kit, I mean you might as well be a Jew, you know."


[624.29-31] "... alarmed, as I observe, strangely, you are not. By the
millions now into your own country they are streaming ..."

The 'relationship' between anarchism and immigration is established in the
first chapter, when Lindsay describes "the inexorably rising tide of World
Anarchism, to be found peculiarly rampant, in fact, at our current
destination ..." (6).

Cf. Lew's take on 50: "There was a kind of general assumption around the
shop that labouring men were all more or less evil, surely misguided, and
not quite American, maybe not quite human. But here was this hall full of
Americans, no question, even the foreign-born ..."


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