Vl--IV Another terrif riff by Frenesi...that hacker we call God

[Mark Kohut]

p.90   "If patterns of ones and zeros were "like" patterns of human lives and deaths, if everything about an individual could be represented in a computer record by a long string of ones and zeros, then what kind of creature would be represented by a long string of lives and deaths? It would have to be up one level at least---an angel, a minor god, something in a UFO. It would take eight human lives and deaths just to form one letter in this being's name--its complete dossier  might take up a considerable piece of the history of the world. We are digits in God's computer, she not so much thought as hummed to herself to a sort of standard gospel tune, And the only thing we're good for, to be dead or to be living, is the only thing He sees. What we cry, what we contend for, in our world of toil and blood, it all lies beneath the notice of the hacker we call God. " 
 
"What we cry".....Frenesi is not Oedipa, the Anti-Oedipa (as Michael B. asked?)
 
       Q: Echoes of Arthur C. Clarke's famous story, "The Nine Billion Names of God" http://lucis.net/stuff/clarke/9billion_clarke.html ?
        Q: Even more, perhaps, echoes of Borges "The Tower of Babel" http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Library_of_Babel?
  
       But why   "eight human lives & deaths"? .....Cf. The importance of the concept of Eight in Buddhism. Eight-Fold Path; Eight Sufferings and "The Eight Awarenesses, or Aspects, of Enlightenment are a guide to Buddhist practice, but they are also the characteristics that distinguish a Buddha. The Awarenesses come from the Mahayana Mahaparinirvana Sutra, which for Mahayana Buddhists presents the final teachings of the historical Buddha before his death. It is said that to fully realize the Awarenesses is Nirvana."       There are also rituals for caring for the dead, for guiding the dead person through the intermediate state into a good rebirth. Such a ritual is "The Tibetan Book of the Dead", more correctly titled "Liberation Through Hearing in the Bardo".
          
          Frenesi riffs on that uncaring God, that computer "hacker we call God"...........'what we cry" is beneath His interest................for Frenesi, disconnected, there is only a malevolent
God.......................which computer never sleeps...always "open"...like we used to think of God...........It will not clear her check....
P's vision of what we take for 'the divine" in 80s America if we are not connected to---the past and the future?