Happy Crying of Lot 49!
Well, it's pentecost, and so you know what that means...no?
Well, for Romans, pentecost was 50 days after some big event (Pente=fifty); a holiday for them. If you look at any source, it will also talk about Pentecost as fifty days after Passover, which it is, but this, I think, cannot be the original source for the word because Pente is not hebrew but latin.
In any case, fifty...until the Christians come along and then Pentecost becomes forty nine days after Easter. Thus a "one" is missing. Somewhere in the grand scheme of religious conversion, diversion, and conversion, something has been left out.
In The Crying of Lot 49, that missing something is the need for God in order to project a morality based outside this world. In other words, The Crying of Lot 49 is a book about having a religious experience without God, whether such a thing is possible, under what circumstances, and whether it is sustainable. I don't want to give too much away and believe me, spoilers have not been inserted because I am not revealing anything about the book so much as providing one of many possible guides.
Nonetheless, as today is Pentecost, it is also the Crying of Lot 49. So, make with the speaking in tongues!
Well, for Romans, pentecost was 50 days after some big event (Pente=fifty); a holiday for them. If you look at any source, it will also talk about Pentecost as fifty days after Passover, which it is, but this, I think, cannot be the original source for the word because Pente is not hebrew but latin.
In any case, fifty...until the Christians come along and then Pentecost becomes forty nine days after Easter. Thus a "one" is missing. Somewhere in the grand scheme of religious conversion, diversion, and conversion, something has been left out.
In The Crying of Lot 49, that missing something is the need for God in order to project a morality based outside this world. In other words, The Crying of Lot 49 is a book about having a religious experience without God, whether such a thing is possible, under what circumstances, and whether it is sustainable. I don't want to give too much away and believe me, spoilers have not been inserted because I am not revealing anything about the book so much as providing one of many possible guides.
Nonetheless, as today is Pentecost, it is also the Crying of Lot 49. So, make with the speaking in tongues!
posted by Monstro D. Whale at
10:38 AM
2 Comments:
Picked up Vineland today. I'll give it a go, since my literature professor Monstro told me to read it.
Oh, and I do see what you mean about having like one, maybe two readers. I seem to have the same thing going on. Hah! Well, guess I'll just keep blogging and see how it goes.
Found this, thought you might be interested:
http://everything2.com/index.pl?node_id=563842
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