Challenge post

[Cometman]

I wrote a response to Re: AtDTDA: 18 Distinct versions of the
Stupendica [514/515]

which also responds to this challenge post,

but sent it to Michael Hussman
and not to the list (sorry Michael)
I've cleaned it up a bit & here it is:

Mark Kohut  wrote:
>   I, for one, think this section carries some/one of the Major
> Overarching Meanings of AtD......
>   A full-scale critique, post-Marxian, pre-Marxian,
> non-Marxian.....preteritely Marxian,so to speak, of The Modern
> Bourgeois World.....
> 

it's also, in my oneiro-critical school 
(i'll let you be in my dream if you'll let me be in yours,
to steal a riff from mr dylan)
a way of pointing up the very different states of mind of Dally
and Kit

Dally is on a mellower trip entirely, having been raised by Merle and
now surrounded by affectionate Zombinis 

Kit, however, is in a place closer to torment, 
reminded by Dally of the family drama,
and in recoiling from her --
he doesn't want to let her be in his dream --
 he stumbles back across the class line 
(through the veil, as in ijk smokefoot)
into the workers' area
where he's drafted into carrying coal ("but then we
should be colliers") 

shows how your mood actually makes the world a different place

oneiro-critical theory points to Bodine's attainment
of officer status as another symptom of the optimistic, 
upward mobility,  "world's problems are all almost solved" 
spirit of Columbian Exposition of 1893: even Bodines were 
on the point of improvement and gentrification, 
or so it seemed (though at that very moment, evil Vibes
were emanating...)

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the subject line 
Re: AtDTDA: 18 Distinct versions of the Stupendica [514/515]
can be oneirically misread as "18 distinct versions of
the Stupendica" -- maybe 2 ships, 3 observers, each with 
a crystal of Iceland Spar?
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interesting article in a little 'zine that I picked up 
at the hippie deli: thesis being that even if human society 
is at peace, its actions constitute warfare on other species----

all our cruise ships are to some extent warships anyway

down with anthropocentrism...
up with ahimsa (hard as heck to practice thoroughly, though)
   

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tenets of oneiro-criticism

1) life is but a dream
2) therefore, row, row, row your boat, gently down the stream

"So listen to my song of life -
you don't need a gun or a knife:
successful conversation will take you very far" - Pete Ham

"It is not difficult to define the place that Linux should occupy in a well- ordered social life. It should be its spiritual core"-Simone Weil, from 'The Need for Boots'


       
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