Tungaska Event

[Mark Kohut]

Two more of my cents on the Tungaska Event before we leave it.
   
  Picking up on Laura feeling/noticing that this blast into "no-time' isn't
  like seeing Eternity on the palm of your hand..........
   
  I'm gonna suggest The Event is What such an Event has come to..in the 20th Century.

robinlandseadel at comcast.net wrote:
  The secret word is "Enlightenment" or "Illumination", the one we're all 
pushing up against, the one we're all doing our best to avoid, knowing 
full well that the forthcoming day will [with any luck] erase the self with 
too much light. Shambhala represents both that enlightment and loss 
of self, loss of ego.

"Unless the state of our souls becomes once more a subject of 
serious concern, there is little question that Sloth will continue 
to evolve away from its origins in the long-ago age of faith and 
miracle, when daily life really was the Holy Ghost visibly at work 
and time was a story. . . .
Thomas Pynchon, Sloth

As Judy Foster would say [invoke]---"Ahuru Mazda!"
-------------- Original message ----------------------
From: kelber at mindspring.com
> The missing word (and I have no easy ideas here) should have some connection to 
> the (or a) larger theme of the entire novel. So, are we far along enough on the 
> read that we can speculate about what the theme (or themes) of ATD is (are)?
> 
> For example, my personal take on what GR is "about" (and I'm very open to other 
> people's views on this)is: the psycho-sexual anxieties resulting from living in 
> the shadow of The Bomb.
> 
> M&D: the death of the mystical/romantic at the hands of science/rationality.
> 
> ATD: entropy (which fits in well with the lack of a central protagonist and the 
> anarchist sequences)? the relativity of time? If either (or both) of these is 
> the hidden "word," how does the Shambhala/Tunguska sequence fit in?
> 
> Laura
> 
> -----Original Message-----
> >From: robinlandseadel at comcast.net
> 
> >
> > Michael Bailey:
> > is this in context of trying to figure 
> > out what happened to Hassan?
> >
> > Is there a missing piece (like "kite") 
> > that will clarify what is going on?
> >
> >Well, I already covered Hassan [Shamans are different from you & 
> >me---you, at least] and all necessary information regarding what was 
> >going on is right there on the surface of the text.
> >
> >There are many scenes in Pynchon's writing where a crucial word is 
> >pointed to but not said. Hassan's splitting the scene is not one of them.
> >Hell, if I had that much weed, I'd split the scene. Hassan's purpose was 
> >from 'higher ups', kabbalistic intelligence agencies found on a few, 
> >rare, trees of life.
> >
> >However, I was struck at how Robert Burton's article pointed to a 
> >number of ideas in Pynchon's writing: ritual reluctance and the 
> >"word", holding two seemingly incompatible thoughts together, 
> >and a demonstration of "Everything Connects/It's All One/Look 
> >For the Deeper Hidden Connections."
> >
> 



       
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