<html><head></head><body style="word-wrap: break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; -webkit-line-break: after-white-space; "><div>Oops. I meant Mr. Monroe, not Mr. Morris. All these Daves....</div><div><br></div><div>I read "aspect" here as 'face' or 'countenance', with "God" being a faceshifting entity.</div><div><br></div><div>Guise or semblance, with the "... under the..." phrasing bringing the zodiac into the equation for an extra hint of pantheism, to be shaken with the sky stuff Mr. Morris mentions?</div><div><br><div><div>On Sep 8, 2015, at 6:38 AM have a nice day, violet wrote this message:), Mike Jing wrote:</div></div></div><div><div>On Sep 8, 2015, at 6:38 AM have a nice day, violet wrote this message:), Mike Jing wrote:</div><br class="Apple-interchange-newline"><blockquote type="cite"><div dir="ltr">Thanks, Monte. That's what comes up on top in Google. I'm just not sure if there's any extended meaning I'm missing in "God under the aspect of Atropos".</div><div class="gmail_extra"><br><div class="gmail_quote">On Tue, Sep 8, 2015 at 2:09 AM, Monte Davis <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:montedavis49@gmail.com" target="_blank">montedavis49@gmail.com</a>></span> wrote:<br><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex"><div dir="ltr"><div class="gmail_default" style="font-size:small">Perspective, angle of vision, viewpoint/point of view... compare the cluster here in Wikipedia: </div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-size:small"><i style="color:rgb(37,37,37);font-family:sans-serif;font-size:14px;line-height:17.92px"><b><br></b></i></div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-size:small"><font face="times new roman, serif"><i style="color:rgb(37,37,37);font-size:14px;line-height:17.92px"><b>Sub specie aeternitatis</b></i><span style="color:rgb(37,37,37);font-size:14px;line-height:17.92px"> </span><span style="color:rgb(37,37,37);font-size:14px;line-height:17.92px">(</span><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Latin" title="Latin" style="font-size:14px;line-height:17.92px;text-decoration:none;color:rgb(11,0,128);background:none" target="_blank">Latin</a><span style="color:rgb(37,37,37);font-size:14px;line-height:17.92px"> </span><span style="color:rgb(37,37,37);font-size:14px;line-height:17.92px">for "under the aspect of eternity"),</span><sup style="color:rgb(37,37,37);line-height:1;font-size:11.2px"><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sub_specie_aeternitatis#cite_note-1" style="text-decoration:none;color:rgb(11,0,128);white-space:nowrap;background:none" target="_blank">[1]</a></sup><span style="color:rgb(37,37,37);font-size:14px;line-height:17.92px"> </span><span style="color:rgb(37,37,37);font-size:14px;line-height:17.92px">is, from</span><span style="color:rgb(37,37,37);font-size:14px;line-height:17.92px"> </span><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Baruch_Spinoza" title="Baruch Spinoza" style="font-size:14px;line-height:17.92px;text-decoration:none;color:rgb(11,0,128);background:none" target="_blank">Baruch Spinoza</a><span style="color:rgb(37,37,37);font-size:14px;line-height:17.92px"> </span><span style="color:rgb(37,37,37);font-size:14px;line-height:17.92px">onwards, an honorific expression describing what is universally and eternally true, without any reference to or dependence upon the temporal portions of</span><span style="color:rgb(37,37,37);font-size:14px;line-height:17.92px"> </span><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Reality" title="Reality" style="font-size:14px;line-height:17.92px;text-decoration:none;color:rgb(11,0,128);background:none" target="_blank">reality</a><span style="color:rgb(37,37,37);font-size:14px;line-height:17.92px">.</span></font></div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-size:small"><div style="margin-top: 0.5em; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0.5em; margin-left: 0px; line-height: 17.92px; color: rgb(37, 37, 37); font-size: 14px; "><font face="times new roman, serif">In clearer English, <i>sub specie aeternitatis</i> roughly means "from the perspective of the eternal". Even more loosely, the phrase is used to describe an alternative or objective point of view.</font></div><div style="margin-top: 0.5em; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0.5em; margin-left: 0px; line-height: 17.92px; color: rgb(37, 37, 37); font-family: sans-serif; font-size: 14px; "><br></div></div></div><div class="HOEnZb"><div class="h5"><div class="gmail_extra"><br><div class="gmail_quote">On Tue, Sep 8, 2015 at 12:09 AM, Mike Jing <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:gravitys.rainbow.cn@gmail.com" target="_blank">gravitys.rainbow.cn@gmail.com</a>></span> wrote:<br><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex"><div dir="ltr">Also, there are two other instances of the phrase in the book:<br><br>V239.21-24 So was the Rocket’s terrible passage reduced, literally, to bourgeois terms, terms of an equation such as that elegant blend of philosophy and hardware, abstract change and hinged pivots of real metals which describes motion under the aspect of yaw control:<br><br>V411.14-18 Here, here’s the rundown on Kekulé’s problem. Started out to become an architect, turned out instead to be one of the Atlantes of chemistry, most of the organic wing of that useful edifice bearing down on top of his head forever—not just under the aspect of IG, but of World, assuming that’s a distinction you observe, heh, heh.<br><br>Here, it seems to mean "from the perspective of". <br><br>And a slight variation:<br><br>V610.3-7 And “Solange,” oddly enough, is dreaming of Bianca too, though under a different aspect: it’s of her own child, Ilse, riding lost through the Zone on a long freight train that never seems to come to rest. She isn’t unhappy, nor is she searching, exactly, for her father. But Leni’s early dream for her is coming true. She will not be used.<br><br>Here, it seems to mean "from a different perspective".<br><br>Please correct me if I'm wrong.<br></div><div><div><div class="gmail_extra"><br><div class="gmail_quote">On Tue, Sep 8, 2015 at 12:05 AM, Mike Jing <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:gravitys.rainbow.cn@gmail.com" target="_blank">gravitys.rainbow.cn@gmail.com</a>></span> wrote:<br><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex"><div dir="ltr">So it's definitely a reference to astrology then? I wasn't sure if the phrase "under the aspect of" is actually used in that context.<br></div><div><div><div class="gmail_extra"><br><div class="gmail_quote">On Mon, Sep 7, 2015 at 4:54 AM, Dave Monroe <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:against.the.dave@gmail.com" target="_blank">against.the.dave@gmail.com</a>></span> wrote:<br><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex">"In astrology, an aspect is an angle the planets make to each other in<br>
the horoscope, and also to the ascendant, midheaven, descendant and<br>
nadir. The aspects are measured by the angular distance along the<br>
ecliptic in degrees and minutes of celestial longitude between two<br>
points, as viewed from the earth. They indicate focal points in the<br>
horoscope where the energies involved are given extra emphasis. The<br>
astrological aspects are said to influence affairs on Earth according<br>
to millennia of astrological tradition."<br>
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On Mon, Sep 7, 2015 at 3:24 AM, Dave Monroe <<a href="mailto:against.the.dave@gmail.com" target="_blank">against.the.dave@gmail.com</a>> wrote:<br>
</span><div><div>> "n astrology, an aspect is an angle the planets make to each other in<br>
> the horoscope, and also to the ascendant, midheaven, descendant, lower<br>
> midheaven, and other points of astrological interest. Aspects are<br>
> measured by the angular distance in degrees and minutes of ecliptic<br>
> longitudebetween two points, as viewed from Earth. According to<br>
> astrological tradition, they indicate the timing of transitions and<br>
> developmental changes in the lives of people and affairs relative to<br>
> the Earth."<br>
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> <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Astrological_aspect" rel="noreferrer" target="_blank">https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Astrological_aspect</a><br>
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> On Mon, Sep 7, 2015 at 3:22 AM, Mike Jing <<a href="mailto:gravitys.rainbow.cn@gmail.com" target="_blank">gravitys.rainbow.cn@gmail.com</a>> wrote:<br>
>> V643.7-15 “Hey Pensiero,” calls Paddy McGonigle, ya still hearin’ dat<br>
>> sound?”<br>
>> “Yeah uh I t’ink it’s a mouth-organ,” Pensiero busily combing up<br>
>> single hairs, cutting each one a slightly different length, going back again<br>
>> and again to touch up here and there . . . God is who knows their number.<br>
>> Atropos is who severs them to different lengths. So, God under the aspect of<br>
>> Atropos, she who cannot be turned, is in possession of Eddie Pensiero<br>
>> tonight.<br>
>> “I got your mouth organ,” jeers Paddy, “right here! Look! A wop<br>
>> clarinet!”<br>
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>> What does "under the aspect of" mean here?<br>
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