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

[Jeremy Osner]

Mark Wright AIA wrote:

> So the "Kirgiz Light" didn't remind anyone else of the Tunguska event?
>
> It's a Primary Religious Experience to be sure but which bush burned?
> Whose eyes were scorched?  And who was blown to their knees (along with
> a vast mandala of felled trees) by the thumb of God?
>

Here's the trouble (as I see it) with thinking of the Kirghiz Light as a
say, nuclear explosion or say, comet impact -- i.e. as a physical explosion
misinterpreted by the Aqyn as a revelation of god: Tchitcherine goes there
and he sees it too! Tunguska only happened once. Nuclear testing (besides,
as PP says, involving a reversal of cause and effect not attributable to
Oneirine consumption), well, it could be repeated but it would be awfully
coincidental for it to happen twice (separated, presumably, by many years)
when the Aqyn was there and when T. was there. I guess testing of
conventional explosives is a possibility but it doesn't really ring true to
me.

Which leaves us with it being a real-live miracle -- I'm having trouble
integrating that with the rest of the story right now, so I'm going to let
it lie for a while and see if it makes sense later on.

Jeremy

--
The right-hand, still untasted part of the novel, which,
during our delectable reading, we would lightly feel,
mechanically testing whether there were still plenty
left (and our fingers were always gladdened by the
placid, faithful thickness) has suddenly, for no reason
at all, become quite meager: a few minutes of quick
reading, already downhill, and -- O horrible!

Invitation to a Beheading
Vladimir Nabokov
http://www.readin.com/books/invitationbeheading/