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

Mark Kohut markekohut at yahoo.com
Sat Jan 10 19:40:20 CST 2009


Yeahp, that's the contextual meaning........Eight in Buddhism sorta like undertones by default but
are NOT part of coherent meaning, I think now that I've learned this.



----- Original Message ----
From: Monte Davis <montedavis at verizon.net>
To: Mark Kohut <markekohut at yahoo.com>; pynchon -l <pynchon-l at waste.org>
Sent: Saturday, January 10, 2009 7:15:51 PM
Subject: RE: Vl--IV Another terrif riff by Frenesi...that hacker we call God

Mark Kohut sez:

>        But why   "eight human lives & deaths"? .....Cf. The 
> importance of the concept of Eight in Buddhism. 

Also eight bits in a byte -- and a byte is a single ASCII character, "one
letter in this being's name."


      




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