GRGR(22) - The Abyss
David Morris
fqmorris at hotmail.com
Mon Mar 13 12:57:06 CST 2000
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(488.11) "There was an abyss between my feet. Things, memories, no way to
distinguish them any more, went tumbling downward through my head. A
torrent. I was evacuating all these, out into some void... from my vertex,
curling, bright-colored hallucinations went streaming... baubles, amusing
lines of dialogue, objets d' art... I was letting them all go. Holding
none. Was this 'submission' then - letting all these go?
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There is a strong similarity in this account with Slothrop's dream in which
the pregnant woman who is drowned lets forth a torrent of life, all forms of
creatures, from her womb at the bottom of the lake (Where is that segment?
Is it yet to come?). The woman here being the vehicle for Creation.
Was Greta at the Castle the "receptive" chosen to bear the fruit of the
Rocket? The Bride/Mother to unleash the new life of the Rocket?
David Morris
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