Webb Traverse, AtDTDA (7) 186. 1-19

[David Morris]

God, I love GR!  Following the maze of sentences like this is pure joy.

On 4/17/07, robinlandseadel at comcast.net <robinlandseadel at comcast.net> wrote:
>               Polker may only be witnessing tonight---or he may
>          really be part of it. He hasn't been shown which it is.
>          Look at this. There is about to expedited, for
>          Friedrich August Kekule von Stradonitz, his dream
>          of 1865, the great Dream that revolutionized
>          chemistry and made the IG possible. So that the
>          right material may find its way to the right dreamer,
>          everyone, everything involved must be exactly in
>          place in the pattern. It was nice of Jung to give us the
>          idea of an ancestral pool in which everybody shares
>          the same dream material. But how is it that we are
>          each visited as indivividuals, each by exactly and only
>          by what he needs? Doesn't that imply a switching-
>          path of some kind? a bureaucracy? Why shouldn't the
>          IG go to seances? They ought to be quite at home
>          with the bureaucracies of the other side. Kekule's
>          dream here's being routed now past points which may
>          arc through the silence, in bright reluctance to live
>          inside to moving moment, an imperfect, a human light,
>          over here interfering with the solemn binary decisions
>          of these agents, who now are allowing the cosmic
>          Serpent, in the violet splendor of its scales, shining
>          that is definitely not human, to pass---without feeling,
>          without wonder (after you get a little time in---whatever
>          that means over here---one of these archetypes gets
>          to look pretty much like any other, oh you hear some
>          of these new hires, the seersucker crowd come in the
>          first day, "wow! Hey---that's th-th' Tree o' Creation!
>          Huh? Ain't it! Jeepers!" but they calm down fast
>          enough, pick up the reflexes for Intent to Gawk, you
>          know self-criticism's an amazing technique, it shouldn't
>          work but it does. . . .
>
> Gravity's Rainbow, 411 or 417