BEER Group Read AMBOPEDIA

[jochen stremmel]

(That's why I wrote: not as akronym but as portmanteau.)

2013/10/18 Mark Kohut <markekohut at yahoo.com>:
> on the surface, Pynchon has arranged it as first letters:
> AM   =  American
> BO   =  Borderline
> PE   =  Personality
> DI     =  Disorder
> A      =  Association
>
> ----- Original Message -----
> From: John Bailey <sundayjb at gmail.com>
> To: jochen stremmel <jstremmel at gmail.com>
> Cc: Mark Kohut <markekohut at yahoo.com>; pynchon -l <pynchon-l at waste.org>
> Sent: Thursday, October 17, 2013 6:59 PM
> Subject: Re: BEER Group Read AMBOPEDIA
>
> 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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