"exhausted by Mark Z Danielewski's dense and overly-complicated tome"

[robinlandseadel at comcast.net]

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From: Chris Broderick <elsuperfantastico at yahoo.com>
> Robot Veg sez:
> 
> This sounds a lot like Mosley's _Accident_, wherein
> the atmosphere gives out that something nasty
> happened, but
> ultimately, there's no there there.
> 
> So I say:
> 
> I certainly don't think that the Tristero is an empty
> signifier (I wouldn't have tattooed it to myself if I
> thought that was the case...), just one that can't be
> pinned down, that contains its opposite. 

Here's another reason that all those readings  of "49" ended up pointing me in the direction of John Dee. Dee was alternatively in and out of favor with the Court during his lifetime, generally perceived in a negative light thereafter and wound up as a jumping off point for the Golden Dawn and Crowley. At the same time, the Queen Elizabeth thought his Astrological skills valuable enough to keep him on retainer. 


>There may a
> there there, it's just hard to see where there is, or
> even how many theres (if any, true!) there may be
> there.  
> 
> "Either Oedipa in the orbiting ecstasy of a true
> paranoia, or a real Tristero," among other things.
> 
> -Chris
> 
> 
> 
> 
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