VLVL2 (15): Bardo

umberto rossi teacher at inwind.it
Thu May 27 11:23:16 CDT 2004



In data 24 May 2004, verso le 21:45, Tim Strzechowski si trovò a 
scrivere su VLVL2 (15):  Bardo:

> 364.22:  "But Weed explained about the after-death state, the Bardo, with its time limits for 
> finding a new body to be born into -- seeking out men and women in the act of sex, 
> looking for a just-fertilized egg, slipping to and fro with needful dim others in a space like a 
> bleak smoke-tarnished district of sex shows and porno theaters, looking for the magical 
> exact film frame through which the dispossessed soul might reenter the world."

The concept of Bardo Thodol is central in Philip K. Dick's The Man in 
the High Castle (a book Pynchon should have read when he was busy 
writing GR) and Ubik (a book I can't believe such an avid reader like 
him can't know).

umberto rossi
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