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[robinlandseadel at comcast.net]

Let me just say that this is gold medal material and I'll get to properly abusing it as soon as I get 8 hours of much deserved sleep. Caio!
 -------------- Original message ----------------------
From: Cometman <cometman_98 at yahoo.com>
> 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...)
> 
> ***
> 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?
> **********************************************
> 
> 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)
>    
> 
> -------------
> 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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