VLVL2 (15): Oriental love magic

[Tim Strzechowski]

381.23:  " 'Oriental love magic!'  Takeshi wiggling his eyeglasses, which he had not removed, at her languidly, 'right?' 

"Hmm, not exactly, but intense enough to make her curious.  [...]  They were in a penthouse suite high over Amarillo, up in the eternal wind, with the sun just set into otherworld transparencies of yellow and ultraviolet . . ."


For anyone with money to burn and a deep gullibility streak:

http://www.magic-love-spells.com/

http://www.aurora-net.co.uk/orientaloccult/links.htm


However, if anything this passage reminds us of the various and sundry references throughout this novel of "otherworldliness":  the drug-induced hippie state of mind, the karmic spirit of religious bliss, the Thanatoidal walking undead, the "reality" of the Tube, etc.
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