MDDM Sublime Succedaneum?

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Wed Aug 21 22:14:35 CDT 2002


OK, if you insist, but what about those jobbers?


In a message dated 8/21/02 10:08:34 PM, lycidas2 at earthlink.net writes:

<< Right, the tale is rather European--Manifest Destiny/Commerce. 

We have to go back to the discussion of the Spiritual
Village/Heaven/God/Soul/Stars and so on. 

The discussion moves down the European chain of being from God and
Heaven to Stars, to Men, to Animals, to Vegetables. 

The NA's tell Mason their Spiritual Village is at the Horizon--West. 
And he tells them his is straight up in the sky. 

Now take the Plant and push it over. 

All those Pilgrims and Caravans are not going up the Plant, but out
West. 

Dixon wants to go to the place where the Giant Hemp is growing. He's
told that it's too far away. Dixon is determined, "where is it?" They
point up to the stars. Actually they point to one of the stars they have
been discussing. 

A Translocation of the tale/tail? 


OK, got go fall into the sky now. 

T





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