Von Braun in the Rainbow

[grladams at teleport.com]

I just watched a PBS documentary on Tesla. I admit I hadn't gotten a
baseline knowledge of him yet. He received visions. He was in Colorado
Springs, Pikes Peak, places like that, Chicago worlds fair, New York, doing
these massive wireless energy projects at the same time of ATD. He also had
a dream that provided a vision for tuning-in and receiving radio signals
from more than one frequency. Also cf to Von Braun for flat footed evil vs.
tragically mis-interpreted: Tesla's inventions would be both intended to:
a) prevent war and do category-killing for power generation, making it free
and b) the same objectives could be flipped, his machines to aid war, with
Strategic defense initiative, and if power generation could be accomplished
at 1 site, create a giant monopoly on power? It's this push pull that's the
heart of what stimulates our author, and ourselves to speak passionatly and
flamingly about this sort of thing. 

Original Message:
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From:  robinlandseadel at comcast.net
Date: Wed, 02 Jan 2008 13:05:17 +0000
To: pynchon-l at waste.org (P-list)
Subject: re: Von Braun in the Rainbow


          Kai Frederik Lorentzen:
          PS: Where is that "Enochian material" in AtD?

I have to apologize, I've only read Against the Day 2 & 1/2 times. The
third 
reading is following with the rest of the group on-line. So my obs. on
encrypted 
or obscure material isn't up to the level of Crying of Lot 49. But Nicholas 
Nookshaft is a clear parody of Alistair Crowley and the "T.W.I.T.S." of the 
"O.T.O.". Crowley considered himself the heir of John Dee's Enochian
system. 
Besides which, the Theosophists, the Golden Dawn and a host of other
seekers of 
the light are flourishing during the time-span of Against the Day and in
greater 
frequency and density than in any other book by Pynchon. The Chums of
Chance 
themselves are perceived by some as a force of Angelic intercession.
Hamilton 
recieves the "vision" of Quaterninions [turns out Quaterninions got revived
for 
computer animation]. Frank recieves a vision thanks to the workings of
Shaman El 
Espinero. And, as per usual in Pynchon, the magic still works.

          If Gravity's Rainbow has a macro-political agenda, it's an
          ecological one.

"God gave Noah the Rainbow sign", and you all know what OBA thinks of
signs, 
don't you? If L.S..D. has a macro-political agenda, it's an ecological one. 
With lots of Rainbows, to boot.

          Ain't you the guy who keeps insisting on the satirical bassline
in all 
          of Pynchon's books?

Yup. I also see Pynchon as being aware of the satirical bassline of 
Christianity.

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