AtD, naming

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"Remember, god didn't say, "I'm gonna make like now," he said, "let there be 
light." His first act was to_allow light in_ to what had been Nothing"

Thelonius Monk: It's always night, or we wouldn't need light.

Don't know why that came to mind.


----- Original Message ----- 
From: "David Payne" <dpayne1912 at hotmail.com>
To: "Pynchon-l" <pynchon-l at waste.org>
Sent: Monday, May 05, 2008 2:56 PM
Subject: RE: AtD, naming


>
>
> Jumping back a bit on this here thread, on Fri, 2 May 2008 
> (11:31:55 -0700), Ian  wrote:
>
>> Ah, here's that post about naming.  Genisis chapter 2, verse 19ff.
>
> There is also the earlier naming-as-creation by god in Genesis 1:1-11, a 
> biblical passage that is is specifically mentioned in AtD (p. 354), just 
> before the old 
> _saw-your-double-refraction-in-half-thereby-bilocating-you-in-time_ trick:
>
> "Remember, god didn't say, 'I'm gonna make light now," he said, "let there 
> be light." His first act was to _allow light in_ to what had been Nothing. 
> Like God, you also have to always work with the light, make it do only 
> what you want it to."
>
> He unrolled an expanse of absolute fluid blackness.
>
> Here is the biblical version, which also has much to say about the day and 
> above and below:
>
> 1 In the beginning God created the heaven and the earth. 2 And the earth 
> was without form, and void; and darkness was upon the face of the deep. 
> And the Spirit of God moved upon the face of the waters. 3 And God said, 
> Let there be light: and there was light. 4 And God saw the light, that it 
> was good: and God divided the light from the darkness. 5 And God called 
> the light Day, and the darkness he called Night. And the evening and the 
> morning were the first day. 6 And God said, Let there be a firmament in 
> the midst of the waters, and let it divide the waters from the waters. 7 
> And God made the firmament, and divided the waters which were under the 
> firmament from the waters which were above the firmament: and it was so. 8 
> And God called the firmament Heaven. And the evening and the morning were 
> the second day. 9 And God said, Let the waters under the heaven be 
> gathered together unto one place, and let the dry land appear: and it was 
> so. 10 And God called the dry land Earth; and!
>  the gathering together of the waters called he Seas: and God saw that it 
> was good.
>
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