AtDTDA (12) "And your mind is mo-ving slow" [326:36 - 327:25]

[Keith]

And it also points to the source of ideas and inspiration for both  
art (Pynchon) and science (Tesla) as being something other than the  
conscious mind and rational deduction and intent. Tesla did not get  
the tower idea by sitting down and following a flow chart of rational  
ideation. Tesla in the text states that the "real tower" is the one  
that appeared in a vision (in one of the amazing limestone caves  
[327:9] in the Velebit range which was a good locale for visionary  
experiences [326:38-40]) and the outer manifestation and its  
construction are all theater [327:20-21] with the finished project  
compared to psilocybin ("steel cap of fungoid aspect"):

http://www.teslascience.org/archive/descriptions/WP001.htm

http://www.divinorum.org/Mush%20Hautla.jpg

"Still there are parts of it I can't believe I wrote. Sometime, in  
the last couple of decades, some company of elves must have snuck in  
and had a crack at it." [_Slow Learner_, 'Introduction,' 22:21-24]




On Jun 25, 2007, at 9:23 AM, kelber at mindspring.com wrote:

Tesla's thoughts on the press-eye view of scientists could also  
express Pynchon's views on his own relationship with the press and  
literary critics:

""'Everything since, all you have seen in the press, has been the  
theatrical impersonation -- the Inventor at Work.  To the newspapers  
I can never speak of that time of simply waiting.  I'm expected to be  
consciously scientific [last 2 words in italics], to exhibit only  
virtues likely to appeal to rich sponsors -- activity, speed,  
Edisonian sweat, defend one's claim, seize one's chance -- If I told  
them how far from conscious the procedure really is, they would all  
drop me flat.'" (p. 327)

Laura