The Causal Dichotomy

[Terrance F. Flaherty]

David Morris wrote:

>
>
> Franz is "the cause and effect man." (159.22)
> Leni believes in a spiritual force which is characterized
> by "movement."
> ----------
> (159.31)  They saw _Die Frau in Mond_.  Franz was amused,
> condescending.  He picked at technical points.  He knew
> some of the people who'd worked on the special effects.
> [aside: how old is the term "special effects?"]  Leni saw
> a dream of flight.  One of many possible.  Real flight and
> dreams of flight go together. [Isn't this the sum of Leni
> & Franz's marriage?]  Both are part of the same movement.
> Not A before B, but all together...
>
> ---------
> "Movement" here has to do with the flow of TIME.  TIME is
> the essence of the spiritual force Leni champions.  It is
> represented in many occult systems which worship the
> "significant moment."  These occult systems include Tarot,
> I Ching, dice, Runes, roulette...  They all essentially
> employ a "casting" of objects to see how they fall.
> Astrology is unique because it involves the "casting" of
> an individual into birth, marked by that significant
> moment in the ever-reliable clock of the stars.
>
> David Morris

GLOUCESTER

        These late eclipses in the sun and moon portend no
good to us: though the
        wisdom of nature can reason it thus and thus, yet
nature finds itself scourged
        by the sequent effects: love cools, friendship falls
off, brothers divide: in
        cities, mutinies; in countries, discord; in palaces,
treason; and the bond
        cracked 'twixt son and father. This villain of mine
comes under the
        prediction; there's son against father: the king
falls from bias of nature;
        there's father against child. We have seen the best
of our time: machinations,
        hollowness, treachery, and all ruinous disorders,
follow us disquietly to our
        graves. Find out this villain, Edmund; it shall lose
thee nothing; do it
        carefully. And the noble and true-hearted Kent
banished! his offence,
        honesty! 'Tis strange.

        Exit

    EDMUND

        This is the excellent foppery of the world, that,
        when we are sick in fortune,--often the surfeit
        of our own behavior,--we make guilty of our
        disasters the sun, the moon, and the stars: as
        if we were villains by necessity; fools by
        heavenly compulsion; knaves, thieves, and
        treachers, by spherical predominance; drunkards,
        liars, and adulterers, by an enforced obedience of
        planetary influence; and all that we are evil in,
        by a divine thrusting on: an admirable evasion
        of whoremaster man, to lay his goatish
        disposition to the charge of a star! My
        father compounded with my mother under the
        dragon's tail; and my nativity was under Ursa
        major; so that it follows, I am rough and
        lecherous. Tut, I should have been that I am,
        had the maidenliest star in the firmament twinkled
on my bastardizing.
        Edgar--

        Enter EDGAR

        And pat he comes like the catastrophe of the old
        comedy: my cue is villanous melancholy, with a
        sigh like Tom o' Bedlam. O, these eclipses do
        portend these divisions! fa, sol, la, mi.
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