Fwd: Re: AtDTDA: (8) 219 T.W.I.T.

[Dave Monroe]

>From same corespondent:
 
> Found something Crowley wrote that must have jumped
> at Pynchon- from essay 'On Blasphemy'
> 
> PIONEERS, O PIONEERS!
> 
> WHENEVER it occurs to anyone to cut a new canal of
> any kind, he will be well advised to look out for
> trouble. If it be the ishthmus of Suez, the
> simple-minded engineer is apt to imagine that it
> is only a question of shifting so much sand; but
> before he can as much as strike the first pickaxe
> into the earth he finds that he is up against all
> kinds of interests, social, political, financial,
> and what-not. The same applies to the digging of
> canals in the human brain. When Simpson introduced
> chloroform, he thought it a matter for the
> physician; and found himself attacked from the
> pulpit. All his arguments proved useless; and we
> should probably be without chloroform to-day if
> some genius had not befriended him by discovering
> that God caused Adam to fall into a deep sleep
> before He removed the rib of which Eve was made.

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