CoL49 - Scurvhamites

[Joseph Tracy]

Had similar thoughts. A group not getting enough vitamin C, not enough acidic resistance to their own disconnection. 

> On Jul 27, 2024, at 7:44 AM, J K Van Nort via Pynchon-l <pynchon-l at waste.org> wrote:
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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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