Re: Disappointed—Plenty of Spoilers
Ian Livingston
igrlivingston at gmail.com
Tue Aug 11 20:17:46 CDT 2009
Would that pig be swimming?
I am in full agreement, and add the item that, indeed, the title does
hark back to Ben Frank's armonium in M&D and Lloyd's of London being
unable to insure it as cargo on it's voyage from England to America
because of "the inherent vice of glass." Could this be a clue to the
next deeper layer? Of, maybe, the fragile cargo of self our carcasses
transport? The scene of Doc's bilocation figures into my
contemplation of this thread....
Man I wish I had time for another reading now!
On Tue, Aug 11, 2009 at 7:49 PM, Robin
Landseadel<robinlandseadel at comcast.net> wrote:
> I'm on my third reading. I know, I know—fanboy rampant, Mr. Overdo.
>
> The moment I saw "Under the paving-stones, the beach!" I was in love.
>
> This is like one of those bound collections of medical transparencies, where
> there are layers and then there are layers under the layers, the beach under
> all those paving stones. There is the "Nick Danger, Third Eye" layer. There
> is the "what I was smoking and where I was smoking it while I was writing
> you-know-what" layer. There's the "CIA activities right in my fucking
> backyard, fer christsakes" level, there's the "scryers I used to know and
> other freaks I've known & loved" layer, there's an overabundance of CIA
> citations and references and then there's the Bonzo Dog Band like a cherry
> on top, God bless 'em.
>
> So I'm happier than a pig in shit.
>
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