yes against the day!

[Joe Allonby]

Take your meds.

On 11/26/06, Jordan Fink <jordan at riseup.net> wrote:
>
> 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
> ==================
>
> 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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