NP: Sympathy for the Devil

[malignd at aol.com]

Agree it's more interesting that God is as big a prick as the devil.  Even more interesting if one believes any of this supernatural tripe.



-----Original Message-----
From: Henry M <scuffling at gmail.com>
To: Pynchon Liste <pynchon-l at waste.org>
Sent: Fri, Dec 21, 2012 7:01 am
Subject: NP: Sympathy for the Devil


Hey, Godard liked the son well enough to feature it a movie!

Has anyone who knows this song considered that the last verse subverts
the name that one is likely to have guessed beforehand, namely "the
devil?" All of the conflated opposites at the suggest that the writer
believes that things are not as they seem, and that, while people are
more comfortable calling the entity that causes tragedies "Lucifer" or
"the Devil," the entity that is often described by some people, e.g.
the Westboro Baptist church, as one that will send your soul to hell,
i.e. "lay your soul to waste" if you don't pay tribute, i.e. "use all
your well-learned politess" is God, not Lucifer.

It makes the song a whole lot more interesting, IMO.

Yours truly,
٩(●̮̮̃•̃)۶
Henry Musikar, CISSP
http://astore.amazon.com/tdcoccamsaxe-20

 
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