DeLillo/Wallace/Ellison

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I suppose I should pursue some old links, and I might be a trifle hazy on account of the time of day, but Tristero's pull is particularly strong around "The Courier's Tragedy", and then there's that line about Oedipa being a wiz at pursuing strange words in Jacobean texts. I could very well be "projecting a world", but I recall a work in a metaphysical magazine speaking of various gates of access in Dee's Enochian system of magic, and there being a 49th passageway that leads to the apocalypse. As I recall, In GR, there are many well-researched references to occult systems and those systems are in many ways grounded in the work of Dee. I wonder how much presence the Golden Dawn will have (if any) in "Against the Day"? Note that a spell by A. E. Waite is folded into GR.

I'm not thinking so much in terms of the etymology of "Trystero". It's more along the lines of "where is all this dark energy coming from, and why should it be the legacy of the good ol' USA?"
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From: Dave Monroe <monropolitan at yahoo.com>
 
But Dee, how so?  See also Ovid's Tristia, Kerouac's
Tristessa, et al. ...