Atdtda23: [46.1i] A passionate heart, 653

[rich]

Like Lovecraft's Old Ones, and the object for them is certainly malevolent

Rich

On Dec 14, 2007 9:48 AM, David Morris <fqmorris at gmail.com> wrote:
> The quality that rocks possess that makes them "living" is their
> longevity, their relative permanence in comparison to our fleeting
> lives.  The object/visitor of the Vormance Expedition sat in place,
> undisturbed, for eons, probably even before the advent of humans on
> the earth.  This meme isn't new.  It was very explicit in Kubric's
> 2001, only there the object was more benevolent.
>
> David Morris
>
> On Dec 14, 2007 7:43 AM, Michael Bailey <michael.lee.bailey at gmail.com> wrote:
> > ...and in Gravity's Rainbow, "sentient rocksters"
> >
> > like Wordsworth, maybe OBA hears sermons in stone and perceives good in every thing
> >
> >
> > On 12/13/07, Paul Nightingale <isread at btinternet.com> wrote:
> > >
> > > Or the fate of the Vormance Expedition, eg on 149:
> > >
> > > "It deceived us into classifying it as a meteorite, you see ..."
> > >
> > > "The object?"
> > >
> > > "The visitor."
> > >
> > > "Your whole Expedition got hypnotised by a rock? That what you're asking us to believe?"
>