ATD: cover: "seal"

Tore Rye Andersen torerye at hotmail.com
Wed Nov 1 15:59:52 CST 2006


>From: robinlandseadel at comcast.net

>In any case, here's some Tibetian Mythology; at a certain point the hollow 
>earth thread comes into play....

Cf. Gravity's Rainbow, p. 321:

"[...] Ombindi, at times self-conned as any Christian, praises and 
prophesies that era of innocence he just missed living in, one of the last 
pockets of Pre-Christian Oneness left on the planet: "Tibet is a special 
case. Tibet was deliberately set aside by the Empire as free and neutral 
territory, a Switzerland for the spirit where there is no extradition, and 
Alp-Himalayas to draw the soul upward, and danger rare enough to 
tolerate.... Switzerland and Tibet are linked along one of the true 
meridians of Earth, true as the Chinese have drawn meridians of the body.... 
We will have to learn such new maps of Earth: and as travel in the Interior 
becomes more common, as the maps grow another dimension, so must we...."

- a passage prefiguring M&D, and perhaps AtD as well?

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