It's about time. . . .(it's about space...it's about 2 strangers in the strangest place...)

[Cometman]

--- robinlandseadel at comcast.net wrote:
>> David Morris:
>> GR clearly includes supra-national corporations (including banks -
>> but he resisted references to a really much more 
> sinister "corporation" called the Illuminati) 

To me, Lyle Bland provides linkage to the mystical side
of the corporate old-boy network 

>> but I think too many take that never-was-a-secret message as the
>> literal heart of the book's construction.  The message is much more
>> abstract and broadly inclusive than that.  The act of connecting the
>> dots is the very mechanism of perception, and patterns are visible
>> (if one looks hard enough - or takes the right drugs) in EVERYTHING,
>> real or imagined.  And how far down into the structure of existence 
>> these patterns persist contains its own possibility of conspiracy 
>> beyond the realm of humanity.  That is more the revelation of GR 
>> than some John Birch Society message (which far pre-dated GR).

> Great response, David

Ditto - and a great reminder of the scene in that Richard Farina
miscellany (Long Time Coming, Long Time Gone?) 
where RF, TRP, and the Baez sisters go to the county
fair and confront the gentleman(men?) at the John Birch Society
booth -- very unlikely that TRP's metanoia flowed from that 
encounter - HOWEVER - quite likely that scene may have sparked
some creativity on his part 

-- I wonder WAS there really a change from the 
blithe "not grouping the world's random caries into 
conspiracies" of Eigenvalue, the dentist in V., to the 
investigations of CoL49 and eventually, the pantheistic 
paranoia of GR...which of course was NOT the end of his
development as an artist, but does seem like the imago
of his work on that theme...

...anyway...
I say, I say, WAS there really a change from the
V.-attitude of blessed are those who don't worry about it...
to the amazing GRace of Slothrop - and did it have something
to do with the Assassination of Danton - er, JFK,
and with CointelPro?
 
> The Temperance card as drawn by Rilke 

Huh?

> But I really do have to get back to Proust.
 
I read Proust as a stoner teenager and about all I can remember
now is he's always talking about "cattleyas" -- 
as a dedicated non-looker-upper back then (I've eased up
in my old age), I had all kinds of funny notions what those
things might be...
I lie, I remember bunches of stuff, now that I typed "cattleyas"
it's all coming back to me in the sight of that word on the page...






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