MDMD Sakti (notes....)

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Sakti

http://65.107.211.208/india/literature/sml10.html

Love affairs, Peaches and Slaves. 

http://website.lineone.net/~stkittsnevis/bristol.htm

The Senoi are (were) a Malaysian hunting and gathering tribe brought to
the
attention of the West by Kilton Stewart. His descriptions of this happy
tribe,
free of disease and mental illness due to their morning dream sharing
and
techniques of dream control, were first described in the early 1950's
though
the research itself took place before the Second World War. 

http://www.angelfire.com/ak/electricdreams/senoi.htm

http://www.redrival.com/nightmare/senoi.html

Playing with her hair. 

http://www.execpc.com/~djg/trich.htm

Betrayal of the Midianites

http://www.the-gnosis-site.com/sri/midian.htm

Jethro (a Midianite, Arab, one of the “eastern” children of Abraham,
 provides refuge for Moses who is escaping for his life from Egypt.
Jethro has kept
 alive the worship of the One true God and therefore teaches Moses,
since the
 knowledge of God among the Hebrew people in Egypt was nearly lost, and
Moses
 had received most of his training in the pagan religions of Egypt in
the court of
 Pharaoh. It's in the Bible, the Torah, Exodus 2:15,16, 21; 3:1, RSV.
“But Moses fled
 from Pharaoh, and stayed in the land of Midian; and he sat down by a
well. Now the
 priest of Midian had seven daughters; and they came and drew water, and
filled the
 troughs to water their father's flock” “And Moses was content to dwell
with the
 man, and he gave Moses his daughter Zipporah.” “Now Moses was keeping
the
 flock of his father-in-law, Jethro, the priest of Midian; and he led
his flock to the
 west side of the wilderness, and came to Horeb, the mountain of God.” 

Job, an eastern man - an Arab - endures suffering, provides an example
of patient
 submission to God and gives a picture of the great controversy between
God and
 Satan. It's in the Bible, the Torah, Job 1:1-2;10, NEB. “There lived in
the land of Uz
 a man of blameless and upright life named Job, who feared God and set
his face
 against wrongdoing. He had seven sons and three daughters; and he owned
seven
 thousand sheep and three thousand camels, five hundred yoke of oxen and
five
 hundred asses, with a large number of slaves. Thus Job was the greatest
man in all
 the East.

Moses & the  number 7 

http://www.greatdreams.com/moses.htm

The number seven is found in all sacred literatures with various
significances. The
seven daughters doubtless refer to the occult powers a hierophant passes
on to his
disciple who has conquered the baser elements of his nature -- the seven
selfish
shepherds.

http://www.bibleinfo.com/Asp/DisplayFullFAQ.asp?FAQid=43

Cartoons: Sex, Drugs, Alcohol and General Decadence

http://home.nc.rr.com/tuco/looney/lists/sex.html

The WIND and T.S. Eliot 

http://www.firstthings.com/ftissues/ft9508/articles/bottum.html

It's odd, though humorous, that Bonk opens a file on Mason and only as
an afterthought files Dixon in it as well. Dixon is, after all, the
assistant, but he is also a Quaker and he is sporting that red coat. So
if Bonk is concerned about word getting out about his fortifications and
slaves, any rebellious activity, he might want to start a  dossier for
Mr. Dixon. 

The term sepia, which properly denotes the
 brownish-black ink made from the dark liquid of
 cuttlefish, traditionally misused as a blanket term
 for the brown ink of old master drawings appears
 to have come into use only in the eighteenth
 century and to have gained popularity in the
 nineteenth. 

http://www.nyu.edu/classes/miller/guide/sepia.html

So much ink, print, paper, pamphlets, files...and this would be more a
shade that appeals to these capers, Mason's drab color, not Dixons.
Although, I suspect the cartoonish descriptions here, contrasted, are
for both figures. 

This sepia shadow is said to be that of the Herren, Herren XVII, of
Holland, who planted this cape town upon this continent mysterious at
the bottom half of the globe where now our astronomers have taken Flight
and come ashore off the white waves. But from a Herren of Holland, the
control of the place seems to be in the hands of a Lord, the 18th
(century?, Berkeley?) Lord. Lord is a bit different than Herren, isn't
it? Both colonial magnates, I suspect, but the Lord is not to be
acknowledged in anyway. In any event, Bonk has probably never met this
Lord, his station more a tavern bureaucracy, he is one of Pynchon's
cartoonish functionaries, far from the center of Power, if there be one
at the V.O.C. 

Dixon and Mason find themselves in yet another prison, they can't
escape, although there are routes, under and over,  no doubt, that
penetrate the imposed  perimeter. 
The boys have improved their communications. If we we might follow suit
in this mad parlor game of ours! Their arguments have become more
positive, honest even, more fun. 
Body blows in the ring are still being thrown, but now these jabs with
words are beginning to shift the paranoid thoughts toward the more
cooperative if silent communications they had no choose but to engage in
aboard the jack ass frigate where the steaming sailors crowded about
them.