SLSL Intro "It Is Simply Wrong"
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vze422fs at verizon.net
Tue Nov 12 18:51:42 CST 2002
on 11/11/02 10:14 PM, s~Z at keithsz at concentric.net wrote:
>>>> Mentioned the periodic table, for example, albeit not
> necessarily as an actual one. Worn out from hunting.
> Any help would be appreciated ...<<<
>
> ???
>
> Gravity's Rainbow is the Periodic Table of the Elements acted out by cartoon
> puppets. Think of a school play with kids in colored costumes being the
> different colors of the spectrum -- Red, Orange, Yellow, Green, Blue,
> Indigo, Violet -- and acting out little skits with songs symbolizing the
> nature of each color. Now extend the metaphor to the Elements, only use
> weirdos to play them. They are kind of crawling around in the muck bopping
> each other like the Three Stooges. They rise up in spirit and become
> beautiful and glowing and then they sink back into the muck again -- or the
> Rocket sinks them again. Or They contrive to keep them down.
>
>
> --Jules
>
Hmmmm.... I'm thinking Pig Bodine would be lead (chemical symbol Pb).
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