GRGR(16): a thing so awesome Even Dzambul could not sing it

[rj]

Thanks Kai, and for the Daubler quotation. (Who is/was Daubler?) Sort of
puts paid to that theory that the North = death (or is it "death" as in
transformation, like that scary "Death" card in the Tarot, a sort of
physical death and spiritual rebirth, a bit like doug was talking about
in his good post about Pynchon's aqyn's song?)

best


> > It is Enlightenment of some description.I don't think it is the bomb,
> > although it could be, I guess. I once suggested that it might have
> > something to do with the Gnostic Light, or "Double Light", but the
> > resident experts at the time wouldn't have a bar of that either. Doesn't
> > the sun off the snow do strange things too?
> 
>   As I suggested before, this seems to refer to the Gnostic idea of NORTHERN 
>   LIGHT. In our rapidly thin running century especially Theodor Däubler has 
>   written explicitly on & out of this idea. But it also plays an important role 
>   in the works of Hans Henny Jahnn & of Rolf Dieter Brinkmann. In their works 
>   the idea has also 'naturalistic' aspects. So Eddins would may call them   
>   "Orphic naturalism". In case you  haven't read my Däubler mail, I reproduce it 
>   here once more:
> 
>   "It is north (...)" (p. 358)