ambiguities...

RICHARD_WILSON at udlp.com RICHARD_WILSON at udlp.com
Wed Sep 29 10:15:29 CDT 1999


"... The true king only dies a mock death. Remember. Any number of young men may
be selected to die in his place while the real king, foxy old bastard, goes on.
Will he show up under the Star, slyly genuflecting with the other kings as this
winter solstice draws on us? Bring to the serai gifts of tungsten, cordite,
high-octane? Will the child gaze up from his ground of golden straw then, gaze
into the eyes of the old king who bends long and unfurling overhead, leans to
proffer his gift, will the eyes meet, and what message, what possible greeting
or entente will flow between the king and the infant prince? Is the baby
smiling, or is it just gas? Which do you want it to be?"
-- GR 131.19-29

well, i'm back and almost caught up with GRGR again. but something keeps drawing
me back to the above passage. it seems very central. the innermost knot or
mandala perhaps... (magnetic pole, fixed-point, stationary neuron, usw...). kind
of connects me to the recurrent "face that we all know" (shroud-of-turin
notwithstanding....).

also, the drama of the melanocytes was extremely cool for me this time around.
is there such a term as "microlepsis/macrolepsis"? (though i guess
back-and-forward applies to scale as well as time so ana/pro will do). 

sorry for the interruption...

--rwilson

"ein... zwei... soufa!" -- the hofbrauhaus song



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