Sexx Laws; WAS: Patrick twisted my arm so now I'm reading Pynchon's latest

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Never forget that "Cool's " etemylogical root is the Kenyan 'Kule', as in 'Know' as in Gnosis. At least that's what I remember from the Whole Earth Review's 'Signal" issue with its little piece on little known etemyological roots and the first thing I stumbled across concerning 'Memes'

 
> I believe this belief system is at least partially expressed in strands of
> gnosticism?
> http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gnosticism
> 
> And if you accept the wiki article's portrayal of the gnostic tenet that "In
> order to free oneself from the inferior material world, one needs gnosis, or
> esoteric spiritual knowledge available only to a learned elite," well then,
> friend, you don't have to look too far to see the implications of Holden's
> immense erudition, or the notions of the Preterite v. Elect in GR and
> elsewhere.
> 
> --
> Dan


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