VL-IV p29
Michael Bailey
michael.lee.bailey at gmail.com
Sat Dec 20 20:01:35 CST 2008
thank you. Nice set of references.
Dave Monroe wrote:
> "Who was saved?"
>
> And with him they crucify two robbers; one on his right hand, and one
> on his left. And the scripture was fulfilled, which saith, And he was
> reckoned with transgressors. (Mark 15:27-8)
>
> http://www.earlychristianwritings.com/text/mark-asv.html
>
> Then are there crucified with him two robbers, one on the right hand
> and one on the left. (Matthew 27:39)
>
> http://www.earlychristianwritings.com/text/matthew-asv.html
>
> And there were also two others, malefactors, led with him to be put to
> death. And when they came unto the place which is called The skull,
> there they crucified him, and the malefactors, one on the right hand
> and the other on the left. And Jesus said, Father, forgive them; for
> they know not what they do. And parting his garments among them, they
> cast lots. And the people stood beholding. And the rulers also
> scoffed at him, saying, He saved others; let him save himself, if this
> is the Christ of God, his chosen. And the soldiers also mocked him,
> coming to him, offering him vinegar, and saying, If thou art the King
> of the Jews, save thyself. And there was also a superscription over
> him, THIS IS THE KING OF THE JEWS. And one of the malefactors that
> were hanged railed on him, saying, Art not thou the Christ? save
> thyself and us. But the other answered, and rebuking him said, Dost
> thou not even fear God, seeing thou art in the same condemnation? And
> we indeed justly; for we receive the due reward of our deeds: but this
> man hath
> done nothing amiss. And he said, Jesus, remember me when thou comest
> in thy kingdom. And he said unto him, Verily I say unto thee, To-day
> shalt thou be with me in Paradise. (Luke 23:32-43)
>
> http://www.earlychristianwritings.com/text/luke-asv.html
>
> ... they crucified him, and with him two others, on either side one,
> and Jesus in the midst. (John 19:18)
>
> http://www.earlychristianwritings.com/text/john-asv.html
>
> http://www.earlychristianwritings.com/
>
> VLADIMIR: Ah yes, the two thieves. Do you remember the story?
> ESTRAGON: No.
> VLADIMIR: Shall I tell it to you?
> ESTRAGON: No.
> VLADIMIR: It'll pass the time. (Pause.) Two thieves, crucified at the
> same time as our Saviour. One–
> ESTRAGON: Our what?
> VLADIMIR: Our Saviour. Two thieves. One is supposed to have been saved
> and the other . . . (he searches for the contrary of saved) . . .
> damned.
> ESTRAGON: Saved from what?
> VLADIMIR: Hell.
> ESTRAGON: I'm going.
> He does not move.
> VLADIMIR: And yet . . . (pause) . . . how is it —this is not boring
> you I hope— how is it that of the four Evangelists only one speaks of
> a thief being saved. The four of them were there —or thereabouts— and
> only one speaks of a thief being saved. (Pause.) Come on, Didi, return
> the ball, can't you, once in a while?
> ESTRAGON: (with exaggerated enthusiasm). I find this really most
> extraordinarily interesting.
> VLADIMIR: One out of four. Of the other three two don't mention any
> thieves at all and the third says that both of them abused him.
> ESTRAGON: Who?
> VLADIMIR: What?
> ESTRAGON: What's all this about? Abused who?
> VLADIMIR: The Saviour.
> ESTRAGON: Why?
> VLADIMIR: Because he wouldn't save them.
> ESTRAGON: From hell?
> VLADIMIR: Imbecile! From death.
> ESTRAGON: I thought you said hell.
> VLADIMIR: From death, from death.
> ESTRAGON: Well what of it?
> VLADIMIR: Then the two of them must have been damned.
> ESTRAGON: And why not?
> VLADIMIR: But one of the four says that one of the two was saved.
> ESTRAGON: Well? They don't agree and that's all there is to it.
> VLADIMIR: But all four were there. And only one speaks of a thief
> being saved. Why believe him rather than the others?
> ESTRAGON: Who believes him?
> VLADIMIR: Everybody. It's the only version they know.
> ESTRAGON: People are bloody ignorant apes.
>
> http://samuel-beckett.net/Waiting_for_Godot_Part1.html
> http://www.its.caltech.edu/~boozer/existentialism/waiting_for_godot_1.html
>
> http://waste.org/mail/?list=pynchon-l&month=0308&msg=84606
>
>
> > "You, Hector."
> > and that, for some reason, makes Hector at least fake sadness. All
> > this falling brings Milton's Satan to mind, of course, but Hector's no
> > immortal spirit. Or is he?
>
>
> "Beg pardon?"
>
> And one of the malefactors that were hanged railed on him, saying, Art
> not thou the Christ? save thyself and us. But the other answered, and
> rebuking him said, Dost thou not even fear God, seeing thou art in the
> same condemnation? And we indeed justly; for we receive the due reward
> of our deeds: but this man hath done nothing amiss. And he said,
> Jesus, remember me when thou comest in thy kingdom. And he said unto
> him, Verily I say unto thee, To-day shalt thou be with me
> in Paradise.
>
> http://www.earlychristianwritings.com/text/luke-asv.html
>
>
> "One OD'd on the line"
>
> Cf. ...
>
> This little piggy went to market
> This little piggy stayed home
> This little piggy had roast beef
> This little piggy had none
> This little piggy cried "Wee! Wee! Wee!"" all the way home ...
>
> http://www.bartleby.com/59/6/thislittlepi.html
>
>
> "household"
>
> Main Entry: econ·o·my
> Pronunciation: i-'kä-n&-mE, &-, E-
> Function: noun
> Inflected Form(s): plural -mies
> Etymology: Middle French yconomie, from Medieval Latin oeconomia, from
> Greek oikonomia, from oikonomos household manager, from oikos house +
> nemein to manage -- more at VICINITY, NIMBLE
> Date: 15th century
> 1 archaic : the management of household or private affairs and
> especially expenses
> 2 a : thrifty and efficient use of material resources : frugality in
> expenditures; also : an instance or a
> means of economizing : SAVING b : efficient and concise use of
> nonmaterial resources (as effort,
> language, or motion)
> 3 : the arrangement or mode of operation of something: ORGANIZATION
> 4 : the structure of economic life in a country, area, or period;
> specifically : an economic system
>
> http://m-w.com/cgi-bin/dictionary
>
> "the SWAT team"
>
> Main Entry: SWAT
> Function: abbreviation
> Special Weapons and Tactics
>
> http://m-w.com/cgi-bin/dictionary
> http://www.tvtome.com/tvtome/servlet/ShowMainServlet/showid-1478/
> http://www.sonypictures.com/movies/s.w.a.t./
> http://www.fortunecity.com/campus/college/811/police/swat.mid
>
>
> "thotz"
>
> Cf. Thoth? That's MR. Thoth to you ...
>
> http://waste.org/mail/?list=pynchon-l&month=0108&msg=58697
>
>
> "compinche"
>
> Compinche: Buddy, accomplice
>
> http://www.geocities.com/TheTropics/Bay/7110/dictionary-c.htm
>
> compinche s.m. 1 (fam.) mate. 2 accomplice (en un delito).
>
> delito s.m. crime, offence: delito polmtico = political crime.
>
> pinchar v.t. 1 to prick. 2 to puncture, to pierce (perforar). 3 to
> annoy, to tease (incordiar). 4 TEC.
> (fam.) to bug. 5 (fam.) to give someone) a jab. 6 no ni cortar, (fam.)
> to cut no ice, to carry no weight.
>
> http://waste.org/mail/?list=pynchon-l&month=9810&msg=32578
>
>
> "Zen meditation"
>
> "The L.E.D. blinks, shivers, nods in a resign'd way. 'You are hardly
> the first to ask. Travelers return'd from the Japanese Islands tell
> of certain religious Puzzles known as Koan ....'" (M&D, Ch. 3, p. 22)
>
> http://waste.org/mail/?list=pynchon-l&month=0109&msg=60225
>
>
> "the fallen"
>
> Preterite
> Calvinist/Puritan doctrine of the Elect (the chosen) and the Preterite
> (the passed-over, the damned); "second sheep" 3; "a new preterition
> abroad in England" 15; Dodoes, 108-11; "But if [the Dutch settlors]
> were chosen to come to Mauritius, why had they also been chosen to
> fail, and leave? Is that a choosing, or is it a passing over? Are they
> Elect, or are they Preterite, and doomed as Dodoes?" 110; "men you
> have seen on foot and smileless in the cities but forgot" 136; at
> Rathenau seance, 163; coal-tars as preterite dung, 166; "his poor
> sheep" 233; "the multitudes who are passed over by God and History"
> 299; "In preterite line they have pointed her here" 316; "Elite and
> Preterite, we move through a cosmic design of darkness and light" 495;
> "they dissolve now into the swarm. . .of this dancing Preterition"
> 548; "The successful loner was only the other part of it: the last
> piece to the jigsaw puzzle, whose shape had already been created by
> the Preterite" 554; Judas, 555; On Preterition, 555; "in their slick
> persistence and our preterition" 590; "rubbers yellow with preterite
> seed, Kleenex wadded to brain shapes hiding preterite snot, preterite
> tears" 626; 667; 668; "the glozing neuters of the world" 677; "the
> Humility, among the gray and preterite souls" 742; See also Hand of
> Providence/God; Puritans
>
> http://www.hyperarts.com/pynchon/gravity/alpha/p-q.html
>
>
> "quality of descent"
>
> Main Entry: trag·e·dy
> Pronunciation: 'tra-j&-dE
> Function: noun
> Inflected Form(s): plural -dies
> Etymology: Middle English tragedie, from Middle French, from Latin
> tragoedia, from Greek tragOidia, from tragos goat (akin to Greek
> trOgein to gnaw) + aeidein to sing -- more at TROGLODYTE, ODE
> Date: 14th century
> 1 a : a medieval narrative poem or tale typically describing the
> downfall of a great man b : a serious
> drama typically describing a conflict between the protagonist and a
> superior force (as destiny) and
> having a sorrowful or disastrous conclusion that excites pity or
> terror c : the literary genre of
> tragic dramas
> 2 a : a disastrous event : CALAMITY b : MISFORTUNE
> 3 : tragic quality or element
>
> http://m-w.com/cgi-bin/dictionary?book=Dictionary&va=tragedy
>
> Cf. ...
>
> "A screaming comes across the sky"?
>
> http://waste.org/mail/?list=pynchon-l&month=0308&msg=84620
>
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