ATDDTA (6) 166-170 b

[bekah]

At 6:47 PM +0000 4/5/07, mikebailey at speakeasy.net wrote:
>bekah wrote
>  > But in fact, as Fleetwood was informed in these lucid dreams close to
>>  dawn, all the gold in the Transvaal could not buy the remission of a
>>  single minute of whatever waited for him. He laughed angrily.
>>  "Purgatory? A higher law? Kaffir next of kin chasing me across the
>>  world? Be serious."
>>
>>  Alden Vormance was going north to get a meteorite.
>>
>>
>>  I think that Fleetwood stayed in the house and died.
>
>
>then the Vormance expedition could be like a Tibetan book of the
>Dead type of thing...all those Bardos (including, if we believe
>Robert Anton Wilson, the Brigitte Bardo...)

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I'm unsure as to when Fleetwood died.   What does "died" mean?  What 
is a ghost?

What I meant was that after his reminiscences Fleetwood died   (but I 
think he was already a ghost,  so how could he die again?) . 
Fleetwood's chronology,  in my mind,  was that he took off for Africa 
at a pretty young age,  then when that all got really bad,  left with 
the Vormance expedition and landed in the City for the catastrophe.

He either died in the City  and came home to the cottage on Long 
Island as a ghost or he escaped the City  in such bad shape he might 
as well have been a ghost and took to bed where he died.   But he 
might have died in New York and  continued his passage to the other 
side from bed in L.I.,  a bed-ridden ghost occasionally appearing in 
hallways and on hills and hiding from the cannibal music of his 
family.

Bekah