LSD in the "WIND"

[Terrance]

David Simpson wrote:
> 
> In TRP, as in TSE, the wind may bring redemption, loss, horror,
> disappointment, memories, echoes, nothing at all, or hints of a new
> world. Cf. Variations on a theme:

See GR.620-21 The Counterforce, where the narrator suddenly
claims that "wind" was a middle term. This after introducing
the two winds of GR, the "secular wind" and the supernatural
wind or  the
wind that Roland cannot quite explain, the Gnostic wind on
the other side, in the realm of Dominus Blicero on page 30. 

In GR there is the "secular wind" sometimes called the
"winds of karma" and there is the Gnostic wind or the
supernatural wind on the other side, in the
Realm of Dominus Blicero. This is the wind that  cannot be
described by those that have transected to those that have
not, it is the breath of God or the wind of the ROCKET, it
is a Gnostic wind, atman, an unchanging wind. It is a wind
that parodies the Wind in Rilke's DE and Sonnets.  

And it may very well be that TSE type wind blows through V.,
not sure about that, thus far we have not seen the wind
bring or even promise anything close to redemption, but the
wind at this point in V. seems to be either indifferent or
hostile. I like Thomas's idea that the wind's gig is
contrasted with the blowing of Sphere. I think it is not
until GR that Pynchon gives the wind a positive and
negative, variations on theme, but again, I'm not too clear
on this just now. 

 Rilke DE I  "Not that you could endure God's voice---far
from
it. But listen to the wind..."The eternal torrent whirls all
ages along in it...

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