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The Whiteness of visitations from Above, from Below, and later the
White Finality and the whiteness of the rocket/whale....our postmodern
friends used to call this symbolic use over-determined and our
mathematical friends might call it an overdetermined system.

The death and life and grace configurations are infinite at least.

God's Grace can do wonders.

In Catholicism, it is held that the purpose of this visit was to bring
divine grace to both Elizabeth and her unborn child. Even though he
was still in his mother's womb, John became aware of the presence of
Christ, and leapt for joy as he was cleansed from original sin and
filled with divine grace. Elizabeth also responded and recognised the
presence of Jesus, and thus Mary exercised her function as
mediatrixbetween God and man for the first time.[1]

1.  Holweck, Frederick. Visitation of the Blessed Virgin Mary. The
Catholic Encyclopedia. Vol. 15. New York: Robert Appleton Company,
1912. 11 Oct. 2013



On Thu, Aug 31, 2017 at 12:06 PM, Paul Mackin <mackin.paul at gmail.com> wrote:
> Correction: Looking it up, I find "visitation" in Catholic parlance refers
> to Mary's visit to her cousin Elizabeth, mother to be of John the Baptist.
>
> On Thu, Aug 31, 2017 at 11:35 AM, Mark Kohut <mark.kohut at gmail.com> wrote:
>>
>> YES!....
>>
>> On Thu, Aug 31, 2017 at 11:30 AM, Paul Mackin <mackin.paul at gmail.com>
>> wrote:
>>>
>>> "White Visitation" a code name, always appearing in double quotes, stands
>>> for something secretive, namely  this inter-governmental long-named
>>> organization whose purpose is supposed be to try out any outlandish scheme
>>> anyone can think of that might possible contribute to winning the war.
>>>
>>> The name itself sounds plausibly like a Catholic hospital or convent.
>>> Angel Gabriel appearing to the BVM.
>>>
>>> On Thu, Aug 31, 2017 at 10:32 AM, Atticus Pinecone
>>> <atticuspinecone at gmail.com> wrote:
>>>>
>>>> Like a symbol?
>>>>
>>>> As for technique, is it far fetched to think he used Burroughs's cut up
>>>> style? They have similarly snarled syntax.
>>>>
>>>> > On Aug 30, 2017, at 8:55 PM, da kid <peterock86 at live.com> wrote:
>>>> >
>>>> > Ok so I made a pretentious title for this post which is pretty much
>>>> > just a random idea/question. When I was reading Gravity's Rainbow I got the
>>>> > feeling that some of his proper names particularly The White Visitation were
>>>> > like, the possible term escapes me, words inserted after the true name had
>>>> > been erased. Like if you are listening to a recording of someone talk and he
>>>> > keeps mention someone but when he says that name a computer voice chimes in.
>>>> > God this is the worst attempt at explanation. But anyways I was wondering if
>>>> > maybe this idea could connect to Pynchon's "layering" technique of writing.
>>>> > Any thought?
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>>>
>>
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