Deathkingdom

[Dave Monroe]

... also, any thoughts, anybody, on this notion of "deathkingdoms"
(V722-3/B843)?  Esp. that question, "Will our new Edge, our new Deathkingdom, be
the moon?" and the attendant "dream of a great glass sphere," "vacuum inside and
out" (and recall the song, "Victim in a Vacuum" (V414-5/B483)), "the colonist"
who "have learned to do without air," why "it's understood the men won't ever
return," why "they are all men," and why "the ways for getting back" are "so
complicated, so at the mercy of language, that presence back on Earth is only
temporary and never 'real'" (and why the scare quotes aroun "real")?  And so
forth and so on ... one of the strangest, most haunting, most allusive, most
suggestive, most just plain interesting passages in the novel, in any novel, and
yet ... but, also, those (Protestant? Hegelian? Romanticist? And so forth ...)
notions of exile, return, reconciliation ...

jbor wrote:

> Blicero's scathing monologue, his vision of the Deathkingdom of man