VV(4) - Horus on the Horizon

[Dave Monroe]

... "the Shadow and Peter Schlemihl"?  Nope, not me, not so far as I can
recall.  Let me know why I might have, should have.  Reminds me, though,
sitting around with a friend last night who's always reliable for an
evening of infotainment (Chinese hopping vampire movies, African
American units in WWII, his own youthful exploits, inc. squatting with
G.G. Allin).  Laying out some sources for Max Ernst paintings, he
mentioned the so-called "Adamite" painters, whose works were largely
destroyed in a purge of the heretical sect (they apparently attempted to
live the prelapsarian, pre-original sin, pre-clothing life, which, of
course, the Church did NOT appreciate).   Apparently big on sun/moon
imagery.  The crescent moon facing TOWARDS the sun (rather than away, as
would be "natural" in terms of light source here) is the giveaway.
General discussion of the heretical, the alchemical, the occult in art
(Fred Gettings, The Occult in Art [New York: Rizzoli, 1975], something
like that).  Imagery no doubt in play in those Pynchonian texts.  Even
mentioned that those, er, "dots" or whatever of the sephiroth (?),
properly "connected," make a lightning bolt-like pattern (and recall
lightning in GR, Martin Luther's thunderbolt [see Norman O. Brown, Life
against Death], that tarot card [The Tower], that "Polish undertaker,"
the Blitzkrieg, that SS insignia, and so forth ...).   Veddy, veddy
interesting.  Recall Kai mentioning those "eight quick impersonations"
(and we're complaining about "impersonation" here ...?) of Stencil's in
re: the sephiroth, but I'm under the impression that there are ten ...
"ots" there (connected 22 ways).  Also reminded of the importance of
astronomy in Shakespeare, in particular.  Anybody have the author, title
at hand of that recent book hinging the attribution of those
Shakespearean texts on the astronomical references therein?  Let me know
...