Fw: CoL49 - Scurvhamites

[David Morris]

So, how does “sodomites” fit this logic?

On Sat, Jul 27, 2024 at 3:24 PM J K Van Nort via Pynchon-l <
pynchon-l at waste.org> wrote:

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> On Saturday, July 27, 2024, 08:02, Mark Kohut <mark.kohut at gmail.com>
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> 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"
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> On Sat, Jul 27, 2024 at 7:45 AM J K Van Nort via Pynchon-l <
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> 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.
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> Riffing that may mean nothing, but the Scurvhamites definitely represent
> the ad absurdum extreme of the Protestant/Puritan belief system.
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> In solidarity,
> James
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