IVIV (1) LSD Investigations

[Dave Monroe]

On Fri, Aug 28, 2009 at 4:08 PM, Dave Monroe<against.the.dave at gmail.com> wrote:

> "a giant bloodshot eyeball"

Cf. ...

Ralph Waldo Emerson, "Nature" (1836) ...

"Standing on the bare ground, my head bathed by the blithe air, and
uplifted into infinite space, all mean egotism vanishes. I become a
transparent eyeball-I am nothing; I see all; the currents of the
Universal Being circulate through me-I am part or particle of God."

http://www.vcu.edu/engweb/transcendentalism/authors/emerson/nature.html
http://oregonstate.edu/instruct/phl302/texts/emerson/nature-contents.html

And see as well, e.g., ...

http://www.pantheism.net/paul/emerson.htm

Emerson's Transparent Eyeball

http://escholar.salve.edu/cgi/viewcontent.cgi?article=1005&context=fac_staff_pub

Emerson's Transcendental Eye and Whitman's Democratic "I"

http://www.allacademic.com//meta/p_mla_apa_research_citation/2/0/9/0/2/pages209023/p209023-1.php

Emerson's “Transparent Eye-Ball” and James's “Glass Eye”: Practical
Transcendence

http://journals.cambridge.org/action/displayIssue?iid=5668088

Hm ...

William James, The Principles of Psychology, Vol. II (1890)

"Let the reader try this with any word on this page.  He will soon
begin to wonder if it can possibly be the word he has been using all
his life with that meaning.  It stares at him from the paper like a
glass eye, with no speculation in it.  Its body is indeed there, but
the soul is fled."

http://books.google.com/books?id=a4QBAAAAYAAJ
http://psychclassics.yorku.ca/James/Principles/prin19.htm
http://www.scribd.com/doc/18765827/JAMES-William-the-Principles-of-Psychology-Vol-II

Hm.  Cf. ...

"As the distance between them gradually diminished Mondaugen saw that
her left eye was artificial ...."  (V., Ch. 9, Sec. ii, p. 237)

http://waste.org/mail/?list=pynchon-l&month=0104&msg=54587
http://waste.org/mail/?list=pynchon-l&month=0104&msg=54593