GRGR: The Center IS The Lie

[jbor]

Right. Get with the program, millison: try to Celebrate Humanity, as Pynchon
does, don't keep bringing it down.

On a not unrelated note, the grace, good sportsmanship and respect for
others which the elite U.S. (and U.S.-based) athletes displayed at our
Olympic Games came as a pleasant (and unexpected) surprise. It was
appreciated here, and they are to be congratulated on their deserved
successes. Perhaps there is some hope for the *next* generation after all.

Thanks for the quote btw.

best


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>From: "s~Z" <keith at pfmentum.com>
>To: <pynchon-l at waste.org>
>Subject: GRGR: The Center IS The Lie
>Date: Mon, Oct 2, 2000, 4:27 AM
>

snip
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> "In the context of polytheism it is virtuous not to be integrated and
> centered, but to be flexible, embracing, tolerant, patient, and complicated.
> The varieties of experience do not have to be harmonized. Balance,
> intergration, and wholeness, important values in monotheistic psychology,
> have no place in polytheism, which demands a stretching of the heart and
> imagination. The polytheistic soul is richly textured and texted. It has
> many qualities of character and is the theater where many stories are
> enacted, many dreams mirrored."
>
>          --Thomas Moore in _Blue Fire_, a collection of Hillman writings