That Revenge Drama in Lot 49.

[Mark Kohut]

So bloody violent. Meanings? Is this History; is this the unverifiable
text that is the transmission of History?  The inherent vice of Human
Nature, which we must go beyond--if we can? History as Jacobean
revenge drama, Hegelianism as Titus Andronicus: History as the Marquis
de sade?

Think of Lot 49, Pynchon and The Word. The religious, leaning
Catholic, obsession thru the fiction to AGAINST THE DAY, w Mark's
gospel. Think of the gnosticism
reading(s), finds, allusions of Pynchon.

I have recently learned this about the Nag Hammadi scroll finds of
1945. "One could hardly have scripted a more sensational story for the
explosive reintroduction of Gnocticism than that of the rediscovery of
the Nag Hammadi scrolls." Before those two brothers had gone out into
the desert and dug up the three foot earthen jar containing them,
their father had been brutally murdered by one Ahmed Ishmael.....While
the scrolls were being stored at home, and some used as kindling by
their mom, they had a chance to get even with Ahmed. They seized him
and "hacked off his limbs, ripped out his heart and devoured it among
them, as the ultimate act of good revenge".
This act is what led to the saving of the scrolls as they fled with
them fearing that they would be discovered as authorities looked for
them.

The Word or words survived.

Good times.



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