skeleton with layers

[mikebailey at speakeasy.net]

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> From: Joseph T [mailto:brook7 at sover.net]
> Subject: skeleton with layers
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> Anyone ever suggest that along with all the other implications of the 
> phrase, that "gravity's rainbow" could describe Oil(Really Fossil 
> Fuels from Coal to Diamonds) with its rainbow sheen ...[and living things which are]
>... hangers about all of which 
> eventually succumb to Gravity and are recycled. 
nicely put! I'm sure there's a lot of truth to that, and I'm adding it to my associative complex, which also includes the idea of how light is bent by gravitational fields, and also the Biblical byplay (if the universe is ruled not by a gaseous vertebrate with a personality but by impersonal forces, then can those forces such as gravity offer some sign of comfort and assurance against repetition of destruction?), and (though I druther not dwell on it) the parabola of a bomb...
> http://www.flickr.com/photos/88346939@N00/
ooh, pretty cool indeed, I was expecting like dinner plates, but of course they are photographic plates; molto cool
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I also really like the Incredible String Band. I don't remember Geli listening to them in the text (it would be a most marvelous anachronism), but I can picture her when I hear Licorice's voice (somebody said she and Rose had voices that could cut thru iron)
... But who has not 
tasted rainbow time and felt natural.

Which brings me to one of the weirdest and most cheerful musical 
bands I could add to the list of Pynchonian music.
The Incredible String Band
This is what Geili Tripping listens to .
Their masterpiece is a 2 album performance play score of 
surrealistic Celtic ,Persian,Euro- Indian, Cowboy, Greek music on 
harps, sitar, flutes, fiddles etc. called U.

One of my favorite songs on this album is the wonderfully long 
rainbow song.

Terry Riley (early experimental tape looper along with Reich,Glass) 
did a nifty album called A Rainbow in Curved Air.

I also like Kermit the Frog's rainbow song and recommend it highly if 
you missed it . Asking the right questions is half the battle.



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