AtD, 838 (after break in page) "beginning with a single shed" & muddy courtyards

[Mark Kohut]

838  "accretion of stonework"....love the description of the natural way the
village grew? ...My hobbyhorse again: TRP likes the natural way (in general), the organic,
  "anarchic" in its meaning of out of chaos, self-organization. Here he shows it in his description of a small hardscrabble community which has built itself naturally from the side
  of a mountain. " a face in Ev'ry stone; a community on every stone mountain, so to speak.
   
  [This is not America, I know, and maybe not even close conceptually but I have recently read this in "Democracy in America": "In a democratic state, the changes in a community can be ordered and progressive".]
   
  838  "wet dogs"...descended...."remembered"....that ancient 'collective unconscious' memory [Jung; whom we know TRP has read]--in dogs, Pynchon's best friend of man. 
  http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Collective_unconscious    (I don't even know if Jung applies the concept to animals)
   
    In the "Definitions" chapter of Jung's seminal work Psychological Types, under the definition of "collective" Jung references representations collectives, a term coined by Levy-Bruhl in his 1910 book How Natives Think. Jung says this is what he describes as the collective unconscious.
   
  How pre-industrial peoples think matters to TRP, no?
   
  A-And, when I checked this concept out on wikipedia, it links in references to Akashic Records, a concept under astral projection. Check it out if interested.
   
  838 Now, for weather-acclimated dogs, indoor life is full of uncertainties....!!!    Living outside was traditional and natural......

   
  838  lignite  (lĭg'nît') 
 n. A soft, brownish-black coal in which the alteration of vegetable matter has proceeded further than in peat but not as far as in bituminous coal. Also called brown coal.

   
   
   
   
   

       
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