GRGR(7) Deeply Surrender

rj rjackson at mail.usyd.edu.au
Thu Aug 5 14:50:55 CDT 1999


schwitterz1
> 
> "[...] he's been brought up a Christian, a Western European, believing in
> the primacy of the "conscious" self and its memories, regarding all the
> rest as abnormal or trivial, and so he is troubled, deeply. . . ."  (p.
> 153)
> 
> And the bombs continue to Fall as we cling to this belief in the primacy
> of the "conscious" self. 
> 
> The quotes around conscious are the author's.
> 

Suspect that it might be Eventyr doing the air quoting here. Another
perspective on the mind being thrown into the mix, not an ultimate
authorial edict.

best



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