NP - Satan and Santa

[Mark Kohut]

I'll carry the candles into battle.....his panentheism, maybe, his pantheism, maybe, his secular Buddhism--an oxymoron, I guess---, maybe--with an emphasis on sex and food, maybe........

might fit under the label of neo-paganism.....

But he always leaves an out, maybe, as Morris would be the first to say, maybe, if I hadn't. 

maybe.

--- On Thu, 12/17/09, Robin Landseadel <robinlandseadel at comcast.net> wrote:

> From: Robin Landseadel <robinlandseadel at comcast.net>
> Subject: Re: NP - Satan and Santa
> To: pynchon-l at waste.org
> Date: Thursday, December 17, 2009, 12:14 PM
> Revolving back to topic "A", "Z" told
> a tale of "Lucina", wintertime Goddess of light. Her
> headgear consisted of a crown of candles—thus "Candlebrow
> U." Pretty tricky, eh?
> 
> I'd like to start up a firefight here over how TRP really
> is a not-so-secret neo-pagan.
> 
> On Dec 17, 2009, at 9:05 AM, Mark Kohut wrote:
> 
> > LOL.
> > 
> > --- On Thu, 12/17/09, Robin Landseadel <robinlandseadel at comcast.net>
> wrote:
> > 
> >> From: Robin Landseadel <robinlandseadel at comcast.net>
> >> Subject: Re: NP - Satan and Santa
> >> To: pynchon-l at waste.org
> >> Date: Thursday, December 17, 2009, 11:46 AM
> >> On Dec 17, 2009, at 8:38 AM, Otto
> >> wrote:
> >> 
> >>> Remember "Saturnalia":
> >>> 
> >>> http://www.funnyordie.com/videos/6b4130b730/saturnalia-from-gypsyfaerie
> >> 
> >> The high point of my work at KPFA in Berkeley was
> a program
> >> I produced entitled "Yuletime." I interviewed a
> number of
> >> local neo-pagans—Starhawk, Z. Budapest, Diana
> Paxson, Don
> >> Frew, others—concerning the sources of the
> Christmas
> >> traditions we all know. Yup, it's all a satanic
> conspiracy
> >> with a touch of socialism thrown into the pot,
> later
> >> co-opted by Macy's.
> >> 
> >> And to all a good night.
> > 
> > 
> > 
> 
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