IV thought - SPOILER

[Mark Kohut]

And google NOYD by itself as well.....

--- On Thu, 8/13/09, John Bailey <sundayjb at gmail.com> wrote:

> From: John Bailey <sundayjb at gmail.com>
> Subject: Re: IV thought - SPOILER
> To: pynchon-l at waste.org
> Date: Thursday, August 13, 2009, 9:40 AM
> Another easy one (too easy really) -
> Blatnoyd. Google it.
> 
> IV taught me a little about Russian history, too!
> 
> On Thu, Aug 13, 2009 at 10:14 PM, Robin
> Landseadel<robinlandseadel at comcast.net>
> wrote:
> > On Aug 13, 2009, at 1:17 AM, Tore Rye Andersen wrote:
> >
> >> John Bailey:
> >>
> >>> Just did a quick wikipedia check on Amethyst
> too - "The name comes
> >>> from the Ancient Greek a- ("not") and
> methustos ("intoxicated"), a
> >>> reference to the belief that the stone
> protected its owner from
> >>> drunkenness; the ancient Greeks and Romans
> wore amethyst and made
> >>> drinking vessels of it in the belief that it
> would prevent
> >>> intoxication."
> >>> Makes the baby-born-hooked-on-smack scenario
> even sadder.
> >>
> >> Great find! Apparently names do carry some magic,
> then, since the
> >> heroin baby does turn out to be released from her
> parents' drug
> >> habits. Cool orange juice is certainly more benign
> than heroin-laced
> >> breast milk.
> >
> > Speaking of names that carry magic: Sortilège—The
> act of divining the future
> > by casting lots, also Sorcery; witchcraft. Middle
> English, derived from old
> > French via Medieval Latin sortilegium, from
> sortilegus, diviner : Latin
> > sors, sort-, lot + Latin legere, to read.
> >
> > see: http://www.answers.com/topic/sortilege
> >
> 
>