vv (6): twentieth-century metaphysics

[Lorentzen / Nicklaus]

 "the book had been written by a colorado businessman to tell people there was 
 life after death. in its course he touched upon metempsychosis, faith healing, 
 extrasensory perception and the rest of a weird canon of twentieth-century 
 metaphysics we've come now to associate with the city of los angeles and 
 similar regions." (95)  

 does this allude to hubbard & scientology? and which places could be meant by  
 "similar regions"? did trp himself have to go to cali to become the unique   
 artist who gave us gravity's rainbow? was the writing down of col 49 the   
 sloughing? & what role did "twentieth-century metaphysics" play in that  
 process? fragen über fragen ...


kfl