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          MB:
          . . . it could be another thing that I just don't get, 
          like the word for the Anti-stone that Merle 
          stops Webb from saying aloud...it's obvious 
          to both of them, but not to me...

Or to me, either, but googling the concept 
[philosopher's stone antithesis]
leads to:

http://tinyurl.com/32n7hr

. . . .first off, there's our old good buddy ritual reluctance. 
I mean you can say these words when you're within the 
circle, but they don't work nearly as well outside the circle 
and rappin' 'bout that voodoo jive 'round straight folk is
just axin for trouble. But now that we're all bein' so down-home
tribal and all, let me note, once again and for the record, that
a lot of what our boy has been up to all these years is
mapping the terrain where heresy flourishes. The simple 
reality of the Panic movement was the marriage of Marxism 
and Witchcraft, Jesus help us all: 

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2Lfjc4Q9pso

Against the Day is rife with episodes where the political
rubs up against the magical, the old alliance of the far, far left
and herbal healers, card readers and Egyptologists

What I'm jotting down here is a Stokowskian Symphonic Synthesis, 
a golden weave of "Against the Day", "In Search of Lost Time" and 
"The Earth Path", an exploration of the themes of memory, time 
and magic. 

          There was much neutral between nations in 1914. That 
          is why the deaths of Archduke Tension and his wife 
          sparked World War I. When Austria-Hungary declared 
          war on allies, the allies of the two nations also began to 
          fight. The two alliances in World War I were the Central 
          Powers and the Serbia. New war technology included 
          submarines, tanks, airplanes, and poison gas.

My wife is a High School instructor, this is an answer on a student's
test concerning World War I. Amazingly enough, other students 
clearly were copying down these very same answers:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Z33gpRWWXPA

          At first Americans wanted the United States to be Germany. 
          Then in 1917 the United States declared war on Versailles. 
          The Americans helped the Allies win the war in 1918. The 
          leaders of the Allies wrote the Treaty of Ferdinand, which 
          punished Germany.

I was correcting a stack of these tests. In one section there was
a little quiz concerning the causes of the first world war. The test's
answers point to nationalism, empire building, expansion of military 
alliances and growth of military technology. Wrong responses
would include Woodrow Wilson's Fourteen Points, the Industrial
Revolution and [last and least] the sinking of the Lusitania. Now,
if you're a LeRouchian super-paranoid [like Wile E. Coyote on 
andrenochrome] you will file the Lusitania under Bushco. false 
flag attacks: http://zeitgeistmovie.com/

. . . .and at the same time, it was one of the most common incorrect
answers on the test. In other words, most of these [admittedly not so 
bright] students assumed the sinking of the Lusitania was a primary
cause of the first world war. Very few people consider that it was an
inside job, you have to look so far to the left to find that one that you 
end up looking far right. And an asana like that can get mighty 
uncomfortable real quick.

I got me to thinking how the bifurcation of the Stupendica and its
Maximillian double is a displacement in time and place of the sinking
of the Lusitania. Pynchon manages to further comically cause the first
great war by the Marxian mode of stage farce, the Zombini's old
Liner-to-Battleship Effect. Remember that optically pure clear calcite is
used to create some of these effects, once again revealing previously
unknown powers of the Earth. Fact is, 'the underground' in Against
the Day always manages to dig up some magical aspect of an
earthly nature, like El Espinero's crystal skull: 

          . . . .is impossible to say how the Mitchell-Hedges skull was 
          constructed. From a technical standpoint, it appears to be an 
          impossible object which today's most talented sculptors and 
          engineers would be unable to duplicate. . . .

http://www.world-mysteries.com/sar_6_1.htm