NP: Sympathy for the Devil

[Ian Livingston]

The old Manicheanism writ for postmoderns.

On Sat, Dec 22, 2012 at 5:28 AM, Henry M <scuffling at gmail.com> wrote:

> Malign, I don't believe that you really believe that believing in
> something makes anything interesting. IMO, once one believes, the
> delta between the thing believed in and oneself becomes too small for
> interest, as interest concerns things that are separated by a
> distinction that no longer exists.
>
> Yours truly,
> ٩(●̮̮̃•̃)۶
> Henry Musikar, CISSP
> http://astore.amazon.com/tdcoccamsaxe-20
>
>
> On Fri, Dec 21, 2012 at 9:04 PM,  <malignd at aol.com> wrote:
> > 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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