GR translation: coffee mess

[Mark Kohut]

The "Voodoo Mess" is celebrated every month in Sao Paulo, Brazil, with the full "episcopal approval" of the Archbishop of Sao. Paolo. This mess includes 
witch doctors of candomble (Brazilian voodoo) and animist (pagan) practices. 
We will now add the "Voodoo" Mess to our list of Messes: 
	1. "Bagel" Mess -- in which bagels (invalid matter) is used in place of bread (wheaten flour and water) 
	2. "Basketball" Mess -- in which the presbyter walks around the "altar" and the "sanctuary" bouncing a basketball while giving Mess play by play into a wireless microphone (Long Island, New York, May 2003) 
	3. "Black" Mess -- in which Satanic principles or forces are invoked 
	4. "Candy" Mess -- in which candy is used for "communion" 
	5. "Camouflage" Mess -- in which vestments of camouflage material, designed by a Lutheran minister, are used (Iraq, April 2003) 
	6. "Clown" Mass -- in which the celebrant is "vested" as a clown and engages in "sacred laughter" 
	7. "Coffee" Mess -- in which coffee is used for "communion" 
	8. "Cookie" Mess -- in which invalidating ingredients are used (said to characterize the majority of messes held in the United States) 
	9. "Dance" Mess -- in which natives dance around the altar, like the one over which John Paul II "presided" in Africa, February 1982 and August 1985 
	10. "Elvis" Mess -- in which a portrait of Elvis Presley was displayed around the altar (Portugal, 1982) 
	11. "Gay" Mess -- in which the immoral homosexual lifestyle is glorified 
	12. "Girl Scout" Mess -- in which Girl Scout medals are given out, with an all-female cast: Eucharistic ministresses, altar servettes, etc. 
	13. "Golf" Mess -- a Sunday mess scheduled on Saturday afternoon and erroneously called "vigil," to allow people to devote Sunday to playing golf and other non-religious activities 
	14. "Mariachi" Mess -- in which sacred music is replaced by the profane mariachi 
	15. "Picnic" Mess -- in which french bread (invalid matter) was used while a priestess performed the mess (San Fernando Cathedral, San Antonio, Texas, April 29, 2003) 
	16. "Polka" Mess -- in which sacred music is replaced by polkas, and the polka is danced around the altar 
	17. "Pontoon" Mess -- held on a pontoon raft lurching back and forth on a river at a summer camp 
	18. "Priestess" Mess -- in which a woman plays the role of a Novus Ordo presbyter and performs the mess 
	19. "Pumpkin" Mess -- in which white witchcraft (wicca) is introduced, this time in the form of a giant pumpkin on the altar 
	20. "Rock" Mess -- in which a rock band takes the place of a choir and organ 
	21. "Servette" Mess -- in which girls take the place of altar boys or men (this mess is quite common in the United States) 
	22. "Voodoo" Mess: at which witch doctors of candomble (Brazilian voodoo) participate and animist (pagan) practices are included (celebrated monthly in Sao Paolo, Brazil, 2003) 
 
 
 

From: Prashant Kumar <siva.prashant.kumar at gmail.com>
To: Mike Jing <gravitys.rainbow.cn at gmail.com> 
Cc: Pynchon Mailing List <pynchon-l at waste.org> 
Sent: Monday, May 7, 2012 1:18 AM
Subject: Re: GR translation: coffee mess


The soggy mass of grounds left after making coffee?


On 7 May 2012 14:46, Mike Jing <gravitys.rainbow.cn at gmail.com> wrote:

P127.2-10   . . . oh yes a most superb possibility has found seedbed
>in his brain, and here it is. What if they are all, all these Psi
>Section freaks here, ganged up on him in secret? O.K.? Yes: suppose
>they can see into your mind! a-and how about—what if it’s hypnotism?
>Eh? Jesus: then a whole number of other occult things such as: astral
>projection, brain control (nothing occult about that), secret curses
>for impotence, boils, madness, yaaahhh—potions! (as he straightens at
>last and back in his mind’s eyes to his office now glances, very
>gingerly, at the coffee mess, oh God . . . ), ...
>
>What is "the coffee mess"?  Specifically, what is the meaning of
>"mess" here?  Does he make coffee in his office using the water boiled
>in the Erlenmeyer flask mentioned earlier?  Does he make a mess of it?
> Or is it something else?
>
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