Help, please

[David Morris]

I'm thinking the rich soils are those of *dreams* and *magic*, the old
man representing a kind of shaman of the downtrodden, plower of dream
worlds, the places where reality is transformed and deeper levels of
consciousness (concentric planets), even down to the level of an
ancient Jungian pre-consciousness.

On Wed, Nov 12, 2008 at 10:31 AM, Michael Bailey
<michael.lee.bailey at gmail.com> wrote:
> g) but, "what concentric planets?" - huh? (or, rudely, wtf?)
>     what kind of farmer turns up planets in his acreage?
>     1) planetary gears?  (more mechanical allusions?)
>     2) archaelogical folklore, "farmer plowing his field turns up a lost civilization",
>         or, "traces of a vanished world" - which of course links the Tristero
>          to conspiracies, cults, mystery religions back thru time
>          (like Ishmael Reed wrote: "The history of the world is the history
>          of the warfare between secret societies")
>     3) still, what kinda synecdoche or metonymy is it - planet-> earth-> soil?
>
>
> So, I'm still getting cammed out by
>       a) the rotating candlestubs
>       b) the concentric planets