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[Clément Lévy]

Le 28 oct. 09 à 06:22, Joseph Tracy a écrit :

> Titus is also the name of the Greek  gentile evangelist who  
> traveled with Paul (Galatians 2 1-3)
> 	1Then fourteen years later I went up again to Jerusalem with  
> Barnabas, and took Titus with me also.
>     	 2And I went up by revelation, and communicated unto them that  
> Gospel which I preach among the Gentiles, but privately to those  
> who were 	of reputation, lest by any means I should run, or had  
> run, in vain.
>    	 3But neither was Titus, who was with me, being a Greek,  
> compelled to be circumcised;
>
> Titus was later  appointed to be a kind of Bishop in Crete, where  
> Paul wrote him a letter.
> So his name is loaded with Christian significance.
>
> The resurrection of the body was Paul's big thing and became the  
> central doctrine by which "heresy"  was removed and the New  
> Testament  canon chosen by the early church. ( If there be no  
> resurrection , then your faith is in vain.)
great!
>
> So we go from  Japonica's journey through the the wold of the  
> "Beast"  in which it seems that they were saved from some radically  
> insane driving by the Police,
yes
> to Blanoyds gated and moated house,
we don't know yet if it really is his house
> to a garage called  Resurrection of the Body where Doc's wounded  
> vehicle is being worked on. Here  Doc meets a friend with his own  
> injured vehicle.  The image here seems reminiscent of disciples  
> racing to the tomb. Perhaps a contrast is being set up between the  
> false resurrection of the Beast/ Golden Fang raised out of the  
> Vietnam-like hell hole to another kind of rebirth. As Clement  
> points out with regard to Coy we are somewhere after the death ,  
> and after sightings of the risen Coy , but before the the nature of  
> that resurrection is clear.
>
> I know I'm  stretching here, but  because of the context , when  
> Japonica asks her aren't you the guy question, it reminds me of  
> Peter being asked aren't you one of his disciples.
it would be even better in this case if Doc denied he knows her,  
three times!
>
> This death and resurrection motif was pretty central to ATD with  
> the crucifixion-like killing of Webb Traverse and the subsequent  
> life of his 4 children ( with textually  embedded references to the  
> 4 gospels and the 4 directions)
>
> Mayhap there is a reference here to the death and questionable  
> resurrection of the auto industry/ the economy/ the soul/ the  
> constitution  of America?
good idea for sure!
Clement
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