afterthought per Ray and Richard

[Robert Mahnke]

On 12/1/09, Carvill, John <john.carvill at sap.com> wrote:
> << I know I'm travelling over well-trod ground here, but if The Crying of
> Lot 49 is trying to tell us anything -- and it is -- >>
>
> Is it? Can you be sure?
>

Hey, that was my joke!


> << isn't it that
> people need to create elaborate constructs to explain the messy,
> complicated reality we live in, but that we can't get outside them to
> discover whether they're true?  >>
>
> Right. But then once you're *aware* of awareness of your tendency to create elaborate constructs, what happens next?
>

You find another Remedios Varo painting to look at?

All this awareness reminds of the supposed story about the Englishman
who, hearing about an Indian myth that the world rests on the back of
an elephant which rests on the back of a turtle, asked what that
turtle rests on, and was told, "Ah, Sahib, after that it is turtles
all the way down.