AtDDtA(16):

[mikebailey at speakeasy.net]

that guy could really write...I _have_ to read some
more of that (but not now, the lycaeum is one of those
forbidden sites here -- when, when, will I be able to get
a good job with a company where the management is
stoners who encourage browsing the Lycaeum?  (probably
around the same time Alan Ginsberg can buy what he
wants in a supermarket with his good looks?))

also, judging by your excerpts, seems like much 
enjoyable homage is paid in ATD to the orotund 
style of all those Victorian and pre-WWI writers, 
which was allusive and generous in its estimates of a 
reader's attention span and wit.

> -----Original Message-----
> From: Dave Monroe [mailto:against.the.dave at gmail.com]
> Sent: Thursday, August 23, 2007 06:45 PM
> To: 'Pynchon-L'
> Subject: Re: AtDDtA(16): "We Have Messages for You"
>
> On 8/23/07, Dave Monroe <against.the.dave at gmail.com> wrote:
>
> > hasheesh
> >
> > Fitz Hugh Ludlow, The Hasheesh Eater: Being Passages from the Life of
> > a Pythagorean (1857)
> >
> > http://users.lycaeum.org/~sputnik/Ludlow/THE/
> >
> > A little hand with the Greek here, please. Thanks!
> >
> > http://users.lycaeum.org/~sputnik/Ludlow/THE/greek1.gif
> >
> > http://users.lycaeum.org/~sputnik/Ludlow/THE/chapter4.html
> >
> > And see as well ...
> >
> > http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Hasheesh_Eater
> >
> > It is Ludlow's remarkable talent to be able to put words to
> > experiences which seem quite beyond the grasp of language. If he
> > resorted to allegory or hyperbole to extend his verbal reach, we
> > should not be surprised. As he said once, "the entire truth of Nature
> > cannot be copied" so "the artist must select between the major and
> > minor facts of the outer world; that, before he executes, he must
> > pronounce whether he will embody the essential effect, that which
> > steals on the soul and possesses it without painful analysis, or the
> > separate details which belong to the geometrician and destroy the
> > effect." That said, many of his passages which may have seemed like
> > fantastic mythmaking to his contemporaries ring very true today with
> > our slightly more advanced knowledge of the psychedelic state.
> >
> > http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Hasheesh_Eater#_ref-Visionary_1
> >
> > http://www.sniggle.net/Ludlow/HasheeshAndHasheeshEaters/index.html
> >
> > http://sniggle.net/Ludlow/
> >
> >
> > "a facilitator of passage between the worlds"
>
> GALAXY.
> AN ILLUSTRATED
> MAGAZINE OF ENTERTAINING READING
> 1 November 1866
> "E PLURIBUS UNUM"
> by Fitz Hugh Ludlow
>
> NOT wishing to deter from the perusal of this article any fastidions
> person whom Fourth of July orations may have tired of spread-eagleism,
> nor by the patriotic sound of its title to beguile any enthusiastic
> fellow-countryman into attacking a treatise for whose matter he has no
> real predilection, I hasten to say that my heading signifies the vital
> and essential unity, not of all the States, but of all the physical
> forces which operate in nature. My title invites the reader to a brief
> popular talk upon the subject which is now universally interesting
> scientific minds throughout Europe and America under the name of
> "Correlation;" a subject which, indeed, possesses so many elements of
> interest for any active intellect, whether trained or not in the
> abstruser studies technically known as science, that, unless I do it
> great injustice by my treatment, every reader whose education enables
> him to enjoy the other portions of this periodical will finish the
> article with the feeling of having had opened to him a new field for
> his thought as limitless and as noble as those trodden by the feet of
> Milton and of Dante.
>
> For the elaboration of the idea of the Correlation, or what is
> equivalent, the basal unity of all the forces of nature, all the
> sciences were necessary ...
>
> http://users.lycaeum.org/~sputnik/Ludlow/Texts/epu.html
>