CoL49 - Scurvhamites

[J K Van Nort]

Perhaps it is just a weak thread, but I can't help but dissect Scurvhamite. My first thought was scurvy, the disease/condition that results from a lack of vitamin C, which to play with the analogy with the Protestant sect would be their lack of compromise, which as Michael pointed out with Goedel's theory of incompleteness/completeness, leads to a stress on their structure of truth that can't be maintained. Then there is the 'ham', which is usually an ending in England for towns/cities. Robert Scurvham leads a diseased hamlet that literally loses its teeth/members because of its inflexiblity.

Riffing that may mean nothing, but the Scurvhamites definitely represent the ad absurdum extreme of the Protestant/Puritan belief system.

In solidarity,
James

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