yes against the day!

Jordan Fink jordan at riseup.net
Sun Nov 26 17:31:30 CST 2006


Hi folks new to this list. reading ATD
two posts for y'all:


1. is I.G.L.O.O. the Inter-Group Laboratory for Opticomagnetic
Observation, a "radiational clearinghouse in Northern Alaska" on 155
referencing HAARP?

2.An entry in my notes from when I was at page 68:
Who against what?
so, I'm at 68 and this book is AMAZING!!!! There is an obvious pattern of
"for" "against" "day" "night" "dawn" "dusk" symbols here are some that
I've noticed so far!

"Fiction" vs "Nonfiction"
Tesla vs. Vibe (vibration?)
free electricity for all vs. cilivilization and criminal power
44. on Lew: "He had learned to step to the side of the day. Whatever he
stepped to had it's own vast, incomprehensible history, it perisl and
ecstasies..." does this put Lew AGAINST the day or perpendicular to it?
(i.e. dawn or dusk)

at first lew is indifferent to Anarchism
The Invisible (Lew) vs. "The Seen"
47. Lew Basnight has an opposite in Max Khautsch - they have the same
number of letters in their names
max is comfortable in the shadows makes no distinctions between life and
death.
so maybe it's like this:

.....light.....
.......||......
Lew=+=Max
.......||......
.....night ...

50. Lew develops a "a fine crack" in his heart i.e. a soft spot for the
people who are anarchists

He is then employed to be "AGAIST" anarchists, is he?

White City Investigations vs. the famous Pinkerton detective angency.

52 On the Inconveinience: Lew vs. Vanderjoice
53. The frontier is gone!
Buffalo Bill vs. Stockyards
Free cowboys Vs. Stockyard workers

58 discussions on physic of light and aether:
aether: a substance of undulation
light as wave vs. light as particle
aether vs ?
wave vs particle
continuous vs. discrete
aetherists are "against the descrete" are "toward the continuous.
at TWIGHLIGHT: vortices

59-light moves bikes dark stops them
light has a consciousness and personality

60 lightarians eat light

61 trying to control light for profit
"if blinky morgan were caught, there would be no aether."
Thus:
Morgan vs. Particle theory of light
Rebles vs Particle theory
Blinky's eyes are different making him
62 "a walking interferometer"
Blighty was invisable and thus (against hte day)
64 learning photography, negatives
image coming from the invisable
made of silver.
65 Merle takes pictures
67, Blinkys' execution
68 Full moon associated with Zombini. Zombini makes Erlys disappear
Merle vs. Erlys
light vs disappearance
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so it's not clear if we are dealing with 2 categories or 4. if the
particle wave thing is aking to two views of light. Power seems to be
"Light" in this case also corporate control of electricity, of range land,
of peoples lives. to be Against the like is also to be against the
discrete and with the fictional/semifiction (this reminds me of M&Ds
thesis that declarative factual histories are products of the power system
and that Subjunctive and "fictional" histories are of the people.


some thoughts... what are yours?




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