couple-three items

[mikebailey at speakeasy.net]

Ya Sam wrote:
>So why did you think Pynchon choose this as an official excerpt? Are there 
>any other explanations (the crazier the better

no spoilers in it?
Or, maybe Jimmy Drop's gang represents Western civilization, and ...


cfalbert wrote: 
>but this might make you feel a little better
>LOOM AND SPINDLE. OR. Life Among the Early Mill Girls. WITH A SKETCH OF.
>"THE LOWELL OFFERING" AND SOME OF ITS CONTRIBUTORS. BY HARRIET H. ROBINSON
>came across it under circumstances of acute serendipity......its an
>eyeopener for those who believe that the history is exclusively "sordid"....

that is an enjoyable read. I found it here: 
http://www.oberlin.edu/history/GJK/H258S2000/LoomSpindle.html
I enjoyed the evocation of times past and the character of the author.
(noting in passing that the benefits for the mill women derived mostly
from mutual aid)

Ya Sam quoted:
> a numbered cosmos, a quaint 
>brownwood-paneled, Victorian kind of Brain War, as between quaternions and 
>vector analysis in the 1880s—the nostalgia of Aether, the silver, 
>pendulumed, stone-anchored, knurled-brass, fili-greed elegantly functional 
>shapes of your grandfathers."

revealing a continuity between GR and AtD.
I have posted this link before:
http://www.orgonelab.org/DynamicEther.pdf
but it was a while back. 
Michelson Morley isn't the final word
for everybody, it seems. The orgonelab.org site is pretty
interesting too. Natural for a Reichian to want evidence for an aether.
Opens the case back up a smidgen.


mike
"the name of this train is the Nothing Special" - Jazz Butcher




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