Fw: CoL49 - Scurvhamites

[J K Van Nort]

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On Saturday, July 27, 2024, 08:02, Mark Kohut <mark.kohut at gmail.com> wrote:

Related, somehow, I think:
Whenever I hear 'amites' as here I always hear Benthamites,,,and, yes, scurvy clearly hereof Bethamites without Vitamin C. ???   Or, maybe better Benthamite's utilitarianism as like Vitamin C to prevent scurvy....
Benthamites   
   - a person who supports the philosophical system of utilitarianism proposed by the English philosopherand jurist Jeremy Bentham."for the Benthamite a natural right was both false and meaningless"



On Sat, Jul 27, 2024 at 7:45 AM J K Van Nort via Pynchon-l <pynchon-l at waste.org> wrote:

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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