Gravity's Rainbow question for the Biblically inclined

robinlandseadel at comcast.net robinlandseadel at comcast.net
Thu Apr 3 10:26:21 CDT 2008


Well, my fellow pretzel, I'm gonna thank you for your---as always---guaranteed 
occult ramblings. Who said "Simplify, Simplify"? I figured out that the Emily yr 
referring to is Emily Dickinson---must look into her work, she appears to be an 
acute observer of nature, and as Victor Anderson points out: "White magic is 
poetry, black magic is anything that works." I remember Judy Foster telling 
me that poetry works, so maybe it's not a black & white world, eh? I suppose I 
need to read her work anyway, as she's emeshed in the New England 
Transcendentalist web, the roots of the Green movement. And Emily is 
name-checked in GR, ain't she?

But to get back to the center [if you want to ground, may I suggest a seven foot 
long copper spike with some silver-clad six nines eight guage copper lashed to 
it? That oughta work], I'm really looking for any possible chapter and verse biblical 
references to the scene of Geli's magic spell. 



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