BE Chap 14. misc.

[Allen Ruch]

For those too lazy to Google, I'm sorry, I wanted to include these links in my summary and forgot:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gematria

https://www.gematrix.org

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Notarikon

One of my friends is a rabbi—a delightfully eccentric fellow, used to write the comic "Moon Knight"—and he once told me gematria is "Jewish Scrabble for Mystics." That's always stuck with me. (He's also one of the few people I know who read "Finnegans Wake" from cover to cover, and he adores Wagner.) 

—Quail


On 1/19/22, 5:26 AM, "Pynchon-l on behalf of Mark Kohut" <pynchon-l-bounces at waste.org on behalf of mark.kohut at gmail.com> wrote:

    The basic Jewish Code is the Torah, the five written books [The Pentateuch]
    from Moses. ---New Jewish Encyclopedia

    BUT there is this from a book on Jewishness in society: There is another
    Jewish code in which something is Jewish enough to be recognized by
    non-Jewish Americans but not too Jewish as to be recognizable only to Jews.
    Fiddler on the roof being the example of the former.

    On Wed, Jan 19, 2022 at 4:56 AM Johnny Marr <marrja at gmail.com> wrote:

    > Jewish Code? Like in the film Pi?
    >
    > On Wednesday, January 19, 2022, Mark Kohut <mark.kohut at gmail.com> wrote:
    >
    >> NYC, the international city. Another country of folk appear.
    >> More ethnic stereotyping played with.
    >> Secret bandwidth accumulation. Why?
    >>
    >> wonderful riff on "Volare"....Maxine's?
    >>
    >> ..give in multiples of 18......"Jewish code? 18 computes to *chai *or
    >> life."
    >> "Same thing with pussy!"....    VERY NICE, I say.....
    >>
    >> 18 always reminds me of *Catch-22, *of which the working title was
    >> *Catch-18*
    >> until cataloging time when S & S discovered Leon Uris's* Mila 18* was
    >> coming out earlier.
    >> (was he doing "Jewish code" with that title?)
    >>
    >> Lester's look: on borrowed time....a heavy vanishes halfway down the
    >> block.
    >> Leaving an empty orchestra playing to an empty room in
    >> Lucky 18......
    >>
    >> Premonition and more 'ghosts'.....
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