psychedelic / that time of the month / MD3PAD recap / GRGR 1,8 - LOTN

[Michael Bailey]

> From: Otto
> Subject: Albert Hofman
>
> Happy 100th Birthday
>
> "Das LSD ist zu mir gekommen"
> Am 19. April 1943 kommt ein Schweizer Chemiker zufällig mit einer
> Substanz in Berührung, deren Wirkung nicht nur sein eigenes Bewusstsein
> nachhaltig beeinflussen wird: LSD. Ein Gespräch mit Albert Hofmann, der
> heute 100 Jahre alt wird
> http://www.taz.de/pt/2006/01/11/a0131.1/text
>
> Die Drogentristesse der Steppenwölfe
> Der 100. Geburtstag von Albert Hofmann erinnert an die 70er-Jahre, als
> seine Erfindung LSD Allgemeingut wurde
> http://www.taz.de/pt/2006/01/11/a0178.1/text
>
>

so, there is a website named after TAZ?
anarchist scheme or cartoon character?
(Oh, Tageszeitung - I see)

from the article:
(Taz) Ein paar Millionstelgramm LSD verändern die Wahrnehmung dramatisch …

(Hofmann) Es ist nicht nur einfach das bekannte Bild, ein bisschen
verzerrter oder bunter, es ist ein völlig anderes Programm.


-- tiny homeopathic doses...



> From: Otto <ottosell at yahoo.de>
> Subject: Summer of Love
>
> Summer of Love
> "Pack die Seele in den Tank"
>
> psychedelic art:
> http://tinyurl.com/blo4n
>

there was also some great psychedelic art in Leary's book "High
Priest", which has been reissued

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speaking of Lunarians, is the moon as full where you are as it is here tonight?

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MD3PAD recap
Looking back over M&D thus far, it's amazing how much has already happened.
The frame-tale set up, a house and lineage erected wherein to tell the
framed tale; Cherrycoke introduced and his history rehearsed, and his
role as storyteller set up and fortified with plenty of coffee; the
meeting of the two gents accomplished; a crossing from America to
England (Atlantics aplenty, there've been - oops, wrong book) or
actually 2 trips to and 1 trip from (there to see the young
pamphleteer, back to allow Tenebrae to induce a little more accuracy,
and back again to England to imagine the meeting of M&D)
and what to make of the LED?  is it presumptuous to suggest he's an
ancestor of the dog Pointsman failed to catch?  when there's a
Fender-Belly Bodine mucking about - perhaps not...
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GRGR 1,8 Lord of the Night - (P, 48, 13-16) "Pointsman's own Fox
waits, out in the city, a prize of war.  In here the tiny office space
is the cave of an oracle: steam drifting, sybilline cries arriving out
of the darkness ... Abreactions of the Lord of the Night...."

as Pointsman in the rubble evokes a comic knight (inverting the
already comic Don Quixote's cook-pot on his head)...

so now, in the steamy office Pointsman and Spectro would be the
visitors, and the prophetesses would be the patients - the epic
convention of "the visit to the sybil (who gives true but misleading
advice)" is played with: pointsman, at least, isn't really listening
to the cries at all, and Spectro is anesthetizing their sources

er, ah, well...the narrator here who is sort of Pointsman-ish, does
think of the comparison, and mingles it with psychoanalytic jargon
(abreaction: a verbal therapeutic catharsis of sorts) and introduces a
"Lord of the Night" which doesn't ring a bell in my mental pantheon
(Nyx was the goddess of the night)

and, next page (P 49, 26-30) Silence comes in, sculptured by spoken
dreams, by pain-voices of the rocketbombed next door, Lord of the
Night's children, voices hung upon the ward's stagnant medicinal air. 
Praying to their Master: sooner or later an abreaction, each one, all
over this frost and harrowed city..."

silence sculptured by spoken dreams, yes, that's a good one - figure
and ground - then the Lord of the Night sculptured by the light from
the gooseneck lamp takes shape as the receptor of these spoken dreams,
and Pointsman and Spectro are aspects of the Lord of the NIght insofar
as they listen therapeutically; but also are supplicants of the Lord
of the Night and his sibyls as they try to interpret by "The Book" how
best to proceed with their (mostly Pointsman's) Quest

the validity of which Quest I totally question, of course (as I'm
probably meant to) but like Imipolex-G, Pointsman's qualities
(questing mind, love for experiment) have been misused by the War, and
I would suggest that HE has actually gone "ultraparadoxical" due to
stimuli such as the night ward...

and, come to think of it, the dog's escape is kinda foreshadowy of Slothrop's...

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