Let's think about Byron the Bulb

[Michael Bailey]

Bryan Snyder wrote:
> Really one is either aware of their own "election" or "preterition"

or, perhaps, one asserts one's election and the preterition of others

which (though I was brought up Presbyterian) I think is something
Calvin invented (or, if not invented, stated more baldly and at greater length
than anyone thitherto) but is a horribly mangly malice-aforethought twisting
of Jesus' thought: the last shall be first.  The Beatitudes.  The
Golden Rule, for Christ's sake!

Showing up in the Adenoid episode of GR, and the old millstream episode of M&D,
in Pynchon, the introduction of a new hazard (election then becoming
"distance from the Adenoid") or a disruptive technology (election then becoming
the land deed to a stretch of water with a gradient that can turn a mill)
plays havoc with established patterns of election and preterition...

also the idea of rejection the interpellation of being preterite, or
intercepting
it by embracing one's preterition, while not invented by P, is used to
great effect...