The Koran
David Morris
fqmorris at yahoo.com
Thu Mar 27 15:18:50 CST 2003
--- Abdiel OAbdiel
[who stirves greatly to be at least as oscure as the Koran} wrote:
> Science, besides being an instrument of power over
> nature, is something that makes some sophistocated
> enough not to believe in the Easter Bunny, Santa, the
> great pumpkin, God. Who needs heaven? So the fallen
> angels in hell build a "paradise" in hell. So too a
> heaven may be constructed or reconstructed on the
> bombed out holy lands. Self-salvation, the great
> tragedy of Gnosticism that Nietzsche experienced like
> an ocean enraged until it washed away even those
> fragments that Eliot's tradition & talent shored as
> ruins upon his weary soul, is a fulfillment of life
> that will come to every man with the feeling that he
> is making a contribution to society according to his
> ability, compensated by a weekly paycheck. Perhaps,
> Eliane, your experience with those young ladies was
> not hell but only an earth you can afford to live in.
> With every wave and revolutionary outburst, the world
> moves West and down the Line. This is, of course,
> Pynchon's own impertinent piece of propaganda. MMV may
> be the work of a sophmoric artist, but in all its
> silliness, it is not politically charged with
> foolishness.
>
>
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