IQ & Atheism

Carvill, John john.carvill at sap.com
Tue Mar 2 03:23:16 CST 2010


<< Pynchon Uses Dynamite as a multivalent image that refers to:  
scientific breakthrough, the explosive technologies driving western  
technology,  warfare between left/right or underground/above ground,   
a spiritual breakthrough akin to rebirth or death and resurrection.  
All this is amplified by the fact that dynamite's root greek word  
"dunamos "( power, force) is used dozens of times in the the New  
Testament in phrases like "You shall receive power from on high."  Or  
as a certain Knight said, "that rabbit's dynamite" ; and as it is  
further written in the book of Armaments "Lord , bless this thy holy  
hand grenade that with it thou mayest blow thine enemies to tiny  
bits, in thy mercy" >>

Great stuff.






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