BEER Group Read AMBOPEDIA

[John Bailey]

Good point Jochen - why on earth would a group append 'pedia' to their
collective title?

"From Ancient Greek παιδεία (paideia, “upbringing”), from παῖς (pais, “child”)."

Got that, of course, from Wikipedia, which was my first thought when I
read AMBOPEDIA.

Maybe a sly dig at the community of citiaen editors who work
obsessively on wikipedia, defining knowledge and truth, but many of
whom are notoriously finicky to the point of great belligerence over
tiny details.

On Fri, Oct 18, 2013 at 7:59 AM, jochen stremmel <jstremmel at gmail.com> wrote:
> Don't know if somebody mentioned already this possibility: Ambopedia
> not as akronym but as portmanteau, ambo being "the platform from which
> the deacon reads the Gospel and says the litanies, and the priest
> gives the dismissal during the Divine Services"
> (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ambon_%28liturgy%29); in the German
> wikipedia I read the definition Ambo = table of the word, and what
> pedia means, well, okay.
>
> 2013/10/17 Mark Kohut <markekohut at yahoo.com>:
>> That 'stretch' to P's borders' notions carries more weight when one
>> notices the Mason & Dixon line referenced......
>>
>> ----- Original Message -----
>> From: Mark Kohut <markekohut at yahoo.com>
>> To: pynchon -l <pynchon-l at waste.org>
>> Cc:
>> Sent: Wednesday, October 16, 2013 4:57 PM
>> Subject: BEER Group Read AMBOPEDIA
>>
>> Borderline Personality Disorder, a cruise ship full.....
>> 1) half-crazy, metaphor?
>> 2) another good social observation about this disease which has grown and grown in
>> diagnosis in Pynchon's lifetime?
>> 3) a self-comment metaphor on Pynchon crossing any kind of borders?.....
>>          3A) some of his fiction seems to diss man-made, therefore artificial, national borders and
>> find the usually ancient natural boundaries of mountains and rivers, etc. to be the ideal. AtD, M & D?
>> yes, this seems like a stretch to me too......
>>
>> I like the crazy resonances for acting outiside the norms.........
>>
>> you?
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