atdtda:31 pg 891 - transcendence / ascension

Mark Kohut markekohut at yahoo.com
Sun May 4 19:21:36 CDT 2008


First impression.....(with much detail you have provided to think thu, think about, speculate
  on..)
   
  --Mark gets on his hobby horse again-----maybe, definitely, transcendence is a huge,
  multivalent theme......................
   
  BUT, I think part of the meaning here is that Yashmeen 'goes beyond" the crazy Reimann math of 'a point at infinity'...........
   
  for the life in time of birth....  
   
  I want to think, sometimes, that TRP in AtD is taking the infinity out of "religious transcendance".......
   
  MK

Bekah <Bekah0176 at sbcglobal.net> wrote:
  Final paragraph:
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891. 22

Yashmeen's dream: "... a hunter arrived at last, a trainer of 
desert eagles..."

* Reef, I presume

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891. 22-.24 "... to unmask against her soul the predatory descent 
that would seize her, fetch her away, fetch her back, held fast..."

** Yashmeen as eagle - descending to prey on Reef the hunter, but to 
back off, come again but they are both held...

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891. 24-.25 "... in talons of communion, blood, destiny..."

* in the grip of lust, the "spiritual" Carnevale thing and a coming 
birth.

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891.25-.26 "... to be plucked off the defective Riemann sphere she 
had been taking for everything that was, ..."

* I think Yashmeen is, in her dream, being plucked off the defective 
earth and she had not here-to-fore not considered a higher 
consciousness or other dimensions.

Riemann sphere: In mathematics, the Riemann sphere is a way of 
extending the plane of complex numbers with one additional point at 
infinity, in a way that makes expressions such as

well-behaved and useful, at least in certain contexts.
http://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Image:Riemann_sphere.jpg

* And the Riemann Sphere for Dummies (moi): http://www.clowder.net/ 
hop/Riemann/Riemann.html

Some graphic representations: (note the triangles made by the 
individual lines through the sphere)

http://users.ox.ac.uk/~tweb/00006/p05.jpg

http://math.fullerton.edu/mathews/c2003/complexfunreciprocal/ 
ComplexFunReciprocalMod/Images/ComplexFunReciprocalMod_gr_44.gif

nice graphic image - perhaps this rendition of the Riemann sphere is 
what the balloon part of the Inconvenience looks like (Riemann sphere 
with the twice iterated modified Bessel function of the first kind 
(nu=-2.3) http://www.nada.kth.se/~asa/bilder/besselitersphere.jpg

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891.25-.27 - "... and borne in some nearly vertical angle of ascent 
into realms of eternal wind..."

Yashmeen, by way of Reef (perhaps Cyprian) and pregnancy has 
transcended and ascended.

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891.27-.28 "... to hover at an altitude that made the Eurasian 
continent a map of itself, above the glimmering of the rivers, the 
peaks of snow..."
http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/4/43/Two-point- 
equidistant-asia.jpg
** not quite the same effect, I'm sure

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891. 28-29 "... the Tian Shan..."
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Image:Tien_shan_sat.jpg

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891.29 "... and Lake Baikal..."
http://tinyurl.com/5gshht (and go to only 4 points up the scale line)
http://www.wildernessphotography.com/Baikal/index.html#59

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891.30 "... and the great inextinguishable taiga."
http://www.wildernessphotography.com/Baikal/taigaswshorehor.html
http://www.nationalgeographic.com/wildworld/profiles/ 
terrestrial_pa.html#boreal

** "inextinguishable" ?
http://tinyurl.com/53ut85
and see page 31:
"forested and wooden Rus' is even in a special, exceptional position 
in comparison with other countries: she is like an inextinguishable 
bonfire which, ..."


** I'd say Yashmeen in pretty highly ascended - and ackshally, I'd 
say transcendence (and the associated ascension) are a motif if not 
an actual theme in AtD. Some of the major characters (although not 
all!) are transcending and ascending all sorts of things from the 
atmosphere and time and self to revenge and desire. They seem to be 
transcending anything which holds them back - known or unknown. No 
one is doing it in any disciplined way - it's all as if by grace.

Transcendence: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Transcendence
Bekah

and that's all, folks :-) 

       
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