atddta 32: last we saw kit

[Lawrence Bryan]

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tuva_or_Bust


On May 10, 2008, at 2:22 AM, grladams at teleport.com wrote:

> The last we saw Kit he was way up North at the door to Shambhala in  
> Tuva,
> throat singers --or was it the wind, moving across singers' lips (also
> there's a wind going across Dally's face in her attempts to pose for
> Arturo), with Prance at the heart of the earth. "Changes of sign" was
> invoked then. So this chapter has a cool train changing metaphor to  
> build
> on the suspence (like the piston metaphor) building up at the end of  
> his
> mission p. 784-7: Our hindsight knows that what could connect us with
> Shambhala can end up as business as usual, providing throughput into  
> Asia,
> into hands of mining
> companies and weapons dealers. Kit feels an ancient epochsong  
> inertia to
> escape west, haunted by the unspeakable future, or else get further  
> mired
> p. 790 like Fleetwood to "an unspeakable compact with sin an death"  
> or,
> travels east. He was truly on one side of a chasm, p. 771 and chasms  
> are
> bad things in mathematical topography. Dally, on her own mission  
> will view
> her end of the chasm on p. 905.
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> I love this quote "Dispair like a corrupt form of hope" p. 790 There's
> something of that Economic theoretical-ness to this statement. What  
> would
> John Maynard Keynes have said about this? Also noteworthy is that in  
> this
> year King Edward VII dies and George is instated as King. Gifts from
> Germans in honor of his memory are received by Englishmen who had deep
> bonds with Germans, like that Crouchmas might have received.
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> The time stamp in atddta32 is June 30th, 1910 (p. 791 although it  
> might be
> 1909 but time's kinda iffy of course in ATD) "In the light from the  
> fallen
> star (Venus?)... in its pallid nightlessness, [Kit] had dreamed  
> insomniac
> the possibility of
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> another fallen thing like the one he had once helped the vormance  
> people so
> terribly bring to its victims." Kit leaves to head back to Turkey.  
> But the
> true nature of the latest tangent he's on isn't revealed until the  
> note
> from Mulciber is described and it's safely in his pocket p. 912.
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> Hope continues to pool up in the Bardo Pond, a nice place to enjoy a  
> delay.
> One of my favorite bands.
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> http://www.threelobed.com/bardo/home/
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> Jill
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