More Against the Days

[robinlandseadel at comcast.net]

Yep, all them "Non-scheduled Theologies" that Lenny Bruce (channeling Oral Roberts) derided, those fly-by-night institutes of spiritual advancement that used to flog their wares in the back pages of "Fate" magazine—all that weird energy comes together within the time-frame and various exotic locales of ATD.

And the unintended consequences of photography, recorded sound and the emerging coalescence of the two in movies [later TV, now morphing into the internet]; wherein souls, no longer restrained by a physical body, come to entertain us either on the Victrola, at the Cinema or perhaps at a seance.
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From: mikebailey at speakeasy.net
> word; I'm also looking forward to an osteopathic subplot (which links in my mind 
> with DL's heresy about controlling her own body) 
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> > -----Original Message-----
> > From: robinlandseadel at comcast.net [mailto:robinlandseadel at comcast.net]
> > Sent: Wednesday, October 18, 2006 02:30 AM
> > To: 'Paul Mackin', pynchon-l at waste.org
> > Subject: Re: More Against the Days
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> > Think.
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> > From: Paul Mackin <paul.mackin at verizon.net>
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> > > I sort of like the ideas kicking around this morning about the 
> > > calamitous (post 1914) 20th century being in some way a focus of the 
> > > book
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> > > How aware were the people of what was to come?
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> > > There were indications I'm sure.
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> > > Pynchon isn't going to settle for any dry old rationalistic theory 
> > > of history approach--marxian, toynbeen, spenglerian, vigoniian what 
> > > have you
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> > > Anyone remember that Blavatskian wing of psi section?
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> > > Madam Blavatsky is said to have predicted the cataclysms Our Time 
> > > time using esoteric methods
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> > > Pynchon is the ideal person to do a complete reworking along these 
> > > lines
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> > > Doesn't everyone think?
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