GRGR (2) "great bright hand"

[s~Z]

"Terrance F. Flaherty" wrote:
> coming from east and west and mixed modes
> of knowing, pull the epistemological rug out from under our minds and send us
> reeling like Dorothy and Toto through the looking glass. 

Here's a nice illustration of Terrance's point. (I think.) In this brief
passage, (especially if you read more before and aft what I quote below)
we bounce around vertically and horizontally from one character's
consciousness to another, from one sensory modality to another, from one
epistemology to another.....multiple images of things separate and
united......differentiated and integrating.....rug pulling
indeed.....and it's a magic carpet so falling is all the more
exhilarating....


(p. 30) "But you had taken on a greater, and more harmful, illusion. 
The illusion of control. That A could do B. (ed., A never did) But that
was false. Completely. No one can DO. Things only happen, A and B are
unreal, are names for parts that ought to be inseparable. . . ."
   "More Ouspenskian nonsense," whispers a lady brushing by on the arm
of a dock worker. Odors of Diesel fuel and Sous le Vent mingle as they
pass.