Doors

hb hbell at sunset.backbone.olemiss.edu
Sat Aug 9 03:47:56 CDT 1997


I have been off the list for a while, bout a month before _Mason & Dixon_
came to store and read and I 'member lines of pynchon and discussion, not of
vonnegut whom I have read but I think is shallowly brave and good yet not
near as deapth and length and fullness as TP...so why send umpteen messages
about a false Vonn quote?  I don't mean to be sharp or pointy but I only
have so much time,
here where computer may serve me to explore further with other good readers
What about Pluto?
What about the Golems?
What about Kabbalism?
What about the World inside Us made of smaller people floating on air
looking down upon the land as sky,
what about Mason and Dixon finding their island between America and England?

Does this complete TRP"s mathematical genius?
Is this where the history and future in fiction at Our time Colliding must
cram into a ball and Question what actually happened, what May happen, what
will happen, or what can Happen?  As in America?  The coming, the here; and
the now?
Is it daily? is it time? is it sleep? is it your eyes.  that take so long to
Focus on what really matters, to key in on the self and where you are in
this earthly plutonic state where-ever that may be, and I know many of you
are not   in America and that is as it is.
        There is a lore of this new book that shattered my self.  It made me
morely think of my definition, my Person, and what it was and where I am
living.  For History is a sacred father and his children are sprung into
time like microchips in Piss-A-Con valley and thrown into the Works, ordered
to contribute and keep it running; is it this that is so hard? or coming
free from the works?
        And what if you try but are off by a Hair?  Can both Ends happen?

    Well, i must go, i want to write more but am tired, please correspond,
people who have read M&D and thought on it etc.  I want to leave this quote
but my copy of the book is in oxford.....but it goes something like this,
please correct if possible-
        "On entering a room, there are other rooms, yet there is always a
Door that cannot be entered."

something like that hunh?
blah,
hb




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