AtDtDA(28): A Presence Come to Earth

Bekah Bekah0176 at sbcglobal.net
Thu Mar 13 08:28:48 CDT 2008


Or perhaps some kind of mystical entropy - the T event was the  
beginning of a butterfly effect and
all being connected
in the reduction of mystical forces and energies available.

Hassan disappears.  The Chums are elsewhere.  The wars and GR are  
coming.

??

Bekah

On Mar 12, 2008, at 7:13 PM, Mark Kohut wrote:

> That the T Event looked like a butterfly ....reminds of The  
> Butterfly Effect esp.
> with the "all forms of life are connected" line....and the echo of  
> an ecologocal
> effect......(I read the phrase "mystical ecology"  
> recently....................
>
> Those two blackbirds, besides their  story meaning given by Dave  
> remind me
> in context of Stevens' famous Thirteen Ways of Looking at a  
> Blackbird.....
> which, of course, is about our ways of perceiving an external  
> world.....
>
> Look up "Two Blackbirds' in it if  
> interested...........................
>
> One layer of the Tungaska Event is to show how we have, if we did  
> it, if They have come from the future, destroyed our world....???
>
> Dave Monroe <against.the.dave at gmail.com> wrote:
> "Two small black birds who had not been there now emerged ..." (AtD,
> Pt. IV, p. 782)
>
>
> "Two small black birds"
>
> Cf., e.g., ...
>
> Huginn and Muninn, sometimes Anglicized Hugin and Munin, are a pair of
> ravens associated with the Norse god Odin.
>
> Hugin and Munin travel the world bearing news and information they
> have collected to Odin. Hugin is "thought" and Munin is "memory"....
>
> http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hugin_and_Munin
> http://altreligion.about.com/library/glossary/symbols/ 
> bldefshuginmunin.htm
>
> Heckle and Jeckle was a theatrical cartoon series created by Paul
> Terry, and released by his own studio, Terrytoons. The characters were
> a pair of identical magpies who calmly outwitted their foes ...
>
> http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Heckle_and_Jeckle
> http://www.archive.org/details/the_talking_magpies
> http://www.bcdb.com/cartoons/20th_Century_Fox/TerryToons/ 
> Heckle_and_Jeckle/index.html
>
>
> "forms of life were a connected set"
>
> http://www.mountainman.com.au/gaia.html
> http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gaia_hypothesis
>
>
> "Somewhere on the other side of the world"
>
> http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/EPR_paradox
> http://prola.aps.org/abstract/PR/v47/i10/p777_1
>
>
> "a state of total attention"
>
> Cf. ...
>
> "She could, at this stage, recognize signals like tha, as the
> epileptic is said to—an odor, color, pure piercing grace note
> announcing his seizure." (Lot 49, p. 76)
>
> "the direct, epileptic Word, the cry that might abolish the night"
> (idem., p. 87)
>
> http://www.innternet.de/~peter.patti/thomaspynchon- 
> thecryingoflot49.htm
>
> Oklahoma City University Law Review
> Volume 24, Number 3 (1999)
>
> INTRUDING WORLDS AND THE EPILEPTIC WORD: PYNCHON'S DIALOGUE WITH THE
> LAWS OF SURREALISM AND NEW PHYSICS
>
> KATHLEEN IUDICELLO
>
> http://tarlton.law.utexas.edu/lpop/etext/okla/iudicello24.htm
>
> Mattessich, Stefan
> Ekphrasis, Escape, and Thomas Pynchon's The Crying of Lot 49
> Postmodern Culture - Volume 8, Number 3, May 1998
>
> http://www.iath.virginia.edu/pmc/text-only/issue.598/8.3mattessich.txt
> http://muse.jhu.edu/login?uri=/journals/postmodern_culture/ 
> v008/8.3mattessich.html
>
>
> Transfinitum
>
> Cantor's mathematical concept of transfinite numbers, indefinitely
> large but distinct from one another.
>
> http://against-the-day.pynchonwiki.com/wiki/index.php? 
> title=ATD_768-791#Page_782
>
> Cantor's Concept of Infinity:
> Implications of Infinity for Contingence
>
> by THE REVEREND BRUCE A. HEDMAN, Ph.D.
>
> From Perspectives on Science and Christian Faith 46 (March 1993):  
> 8-16.
>
> http://www.asa3.org/asa/PSCF/1993/PSCF3-93Hedman.html
>
>
> "chosen to reenter the finite world ... mortality ... a presence  
> come to Earth"
>
> The Incarnation is the mystery and the dogma of the Word made Flesh.
> ln this technical sense the word incarnation was adopted, during the
> twelfth century, from the Norman-French, which in turn had taken the
> word over from the Latin incarnatio. The Latin Fathers, from the
> fourth century, make common use of the word; so Saints Jerome,
> Ambrose, Hilary, etc. The Latin incarnatio (in: caro, flesh)
> corresponds to the Greek sarkosis, or ensarkosis, which words depend
> on John (i, 14) kai ho Logos sarx egeneto, "And the Word was made
> flesh"....
>
> http://www.newadvent.org/cathen/07706b.htm
>
> "And the Word became flesh and made his dwelling among us, and we saw
> his glory, the glory as of the Father's only Son, full of grace and
> truth." --John 1:14
>
> http://bible.cc/john/1-14.htm
> http://www.usccb.org/nab/bible/john/john1.htm
>
> The incarnate Word is the new mode of God's presence among his people.
> The Greek verb has the same consonants as the Aramaic word for God's
> presence (Shekinah)....
>
> http://www.usccb.org/nab/bible/john/john1.htm#foot9
>
> "sshhhghhh" (GR, Pt. IV, p. 680)
>
>
> dungur
>
> A dungur is a shamanic drum.
>
>
> "homeopathic echoes to protect from its return"
>
> The homeopathic principle is that small doses of what kills will cure
> or prevent; drumming prevents return of the huge sound.
>
> http://against-the-day.pynchonwiki.com/wiki/index.php? 
> title=ATD_768-791#Page_783
>
>
>
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