Prosthetic Paradise(2) Enfetishment&MS (fwd)

[Lorentzen / Nicklaus]

Paul schrieb:
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> On Sat, 4 Dec 1999, Lorentzen / Nicklaus wrote:
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> >      > Been looking for something like that.
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> >            "something stash'd in thy Boot-Strap to get thee going upon a
>  cold   
> >             Day,--- and cold shall it be,--- a part of thy Soul that
>  doesn't    
> >              depend on Memories, that lies further than Memories...?'"
> >                                                           
> >                        (M&D, p. 253)        KFL  
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> A sort of a basic input output system (BIOS) on ROM, eh? 

  No, while reading M&D I simply came across the passage. Call it   
  "synchronicity" or whatever you like. 


> The boys were indeed of the Age of Englightenment.

  Well, though modernity brought us such wonderful things as posttraditional    
  arts & synthetic drugs, I think, all in all it turned out to be only a     
  perfectly "rationalized" form of the Archontic Terror, that had been going on 
  in the Garden of Eden ever since the Fall. Nevertheless a significant     
  magnification of that terror: Auschwitz, the Gulag & Hiroshima. Not to forget 
  all these souls devasteted by scientific materialism ... & isn't M&D 
  constantly joking about this "ideological" talk of the "Age of Enlightment"?! 
  Some people (- Hallo Hubert!) criticize the book's humor as boring & fussy.   
  But this fussyness is - at the end of our century - the darkest humor one can 
  imagine. In the snowball's silence lurks the apocalyptic sound of the V2 ... 
         
                                                         KFL