AtDTDA : 12 "My Native land is not a country" 326

[robinlandseadel at comcast.net]

             Mike Bailey:
             so the casualties mount: first Glenn's copy, now 
             yours. The binding seemed fairly sturdy to me, 
             but your reading is more intensive...

Be sure to mention "obsessive-compulsive".

             Me:
             The longer I read the book, the more tabs go in 
             (I'm using wood glue to get the pages back into 
             the so called spine of the novel---[suddenly switches 
             to Ben Stein's voice]: "Anybody? Anybody?")

             Mike Bailey:
             another TV reference that I find opaque...

Ferris Bueller's Day Off---[one of those running family jokes, as my wife and 
my elder sister are teachers]---It's the sound of one lonely teacher, 
acclimated to being ignored, seeing if anyone in the class is still awake 
[also aware that his is the most soporific sound yet issued forth from a 
human larynx] calling out, much like Diogenes with his lamp in broad 
daylight, for one with the will to stay awake in the midst of such a sedative 
environment. Mostly it's on account of the "so-called spine" part, seeing 
as a number of auditors of the work have bemoaned a certain structural 
shapelessness found in this overstuffed shaggy-dog tale.

             OK, so you're linking the Grand Cohen (Crowley/
             Nookshaft) to Genghis Cohen (Lot 49 stamp maven) 
             and putting them in the Alternate Communication 
             Channel category together...

Czech!

              a-and that category is in the same class of 
             categories as Anarchism/Gilded Age, and Occult/
             Spiritual/Sacramental Substance---so, in a way these 
             might be like the 3 Supernal Sephiroth...wrt to the 
             Tree of Life animating AtD in your reading

Pole! 
Well, you sped past me there, I'm using each of the colored tabs as markers 
demarcating several themes one would have expected to find from the author's 
previous history like theosophy and laudenum. In addition to Pink, Purple, 
Green and Yellow, there's Red for literary reference/literary quality and every 
now and then, blood. Blue is science, and there's plenty of blue tabs and more 
added all the time. The rare Orange tab is for music, which might end up as 
Yellow tabs {got plenty} with Orange stars {ditto} for music. Music---obviously
---is taken very seriously in AtD. Once again we are in the presence of the 
strange magic emanating from Ruperta Chirpingdon-Groin. The glittering 
stars share the same color code, therefore [much like the I-Ching] paradoxical 
readings are mapped. But I am not anywhere near as knowledgeable as you 
concerning the Kabbalah, I've just been around it so often I know what it smells 
like. What I'm doing is really is more like a horse race---trying to find out what 
themes OBA's used before that he's using again. So Anarchy and Pynchon's 
Joseph Campbell-like cataloging of spiritual systems/states are duking it out for 
frequency of use. But a lot [and I do mean a lot] of COL 49 references pop 
out, particularly after multiple readings of both. General note---the COL49 stuff 
is coming off as deliberate parody and lies close to spying/encryption of all sorts. 
The mere presence of Nookshaft focuses on a co-joining of the occult and 
spying/intelligence gathering that mimics and greatly exceeds COL49.

             William Logan:
             nearly half a century ago, like a chemical process
             that on repetition grows less efficient and the
             resulting solution less potent, until it does not work
             at all.

             Mike Bailey:
             what kinda process izzat?  distillation gets stronger on 
            repetition...

Bong Hits!!!

             MB:
             what I was wondering is, isn't the spirit of 68 which in 
             many ways is the coequal and culmination of that 60s 
             stuff, I say, I say, isn't that entity animated by the 
             same stream of thought as po-mo?

What I'm wondering is: is Post-Modernism really "Post-God"?, where the 
old mono-theological myths eventually perish, as did [for the most part] 
the old polyandry of the deities? Or is it the intellectual equivalent of the
Neo-Cons?

             MB:             
             Like, the supernal triad here would be

             Binah
             60s stuff including the "events" & counterculture
             Chokmah
             theory from structuralism to postmodernism and beyond
             Kether
             Pynchon's novels

             now me, I read Pynchon primarily for the verbal felicities 
             and the memorable characters, but nothing wrong with 
             entertaining an entertaining theory or two...

See, my spiritual teachers don't go for this hierarchical shit, no way man,
more like straight up 24fps radicals. Like, you wanna get down/then get 
down, and like calling it "black" magic---well it's fucking time you embraced 
that, it's just like "Black Power", like this is really making racist judgments, man 
usw. Can't imagine anything/body more firmly lodged in Malkuth than Brigidier
Pudding, and TRP did come up with that particularly foul gas transmission, 
didn't he? Anyways, Our Beloved Author really belongs in Tipheret along with 
Byron the lightbulb and other feebs who are hepped to what's goin' down but 
are just too helpless to do anything about it..