SLSL Intro, Sub Rosa
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Mon Nov 25 22:09:20 CST 2002
Not too pleased with his "old" young self, is he:
Could Willy Sutton rob a safe? Loot the Baedeker
I did, all the details of a time and a place I had never
been to, right down to the names of the diplomatic
corps. Who'd make up a name like Khevenhuller-Metsch?
(Intro, p.17)
cf:
The pseudepigrapher identifies himself with a former
age because he believes in the eternal significance of
his message. Pseudepigraphy is not forgery, but a
proclamation of the continuity of a hidden tradition.
The Kabbalah as a whole, even when it did not engage
in pseudepigraphy, was metaphorically pseudepigraphical,
Scholem intimates, because it claimed to be an ancient
esoteric tradition (*Kabbalah*)...(...) Scholem points out,
for example, that the fourteenth-century Kabbalists
may have doubted the Zohar's claim of antiquity without
for a moment rejecting its veracity.
(Gershom Scholem: Kabbala and Counter-History, David
Biale, Harvard University Press, 1979. p119)
Again,
Lest others become as enchanted as I was and have
continued to be with this technique, let me point out
that it is a lousy way to go about writing a story.(Intro-p17)
right...
respectfully
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