Prising some Character and Emotion out of Pynchon's Books

[Robin Landseadel]

Not no mo'!

Ya might say I've been re-possessed, nuck. nuck, nuck.

Used to live with a Crowley-ite who was also a Curly-ite.

1—2—3—4:

Tain't never gonna work in a magic shoppe no mo',

no mo' . . .

Tain't never gonna work in a magic shoppe no mo' . . .

I don't care what Crowley don't allow,

ain't gonna work fo' no damn wiccans no how,

Tain't never gonna work in a magic shoppe no mo'.

On the other hand, working in Wiccan tchotkerias taught me two little  
goodies that rilly, rilly, rilly applies to Pynchon,  a thing or two  
that has direct application to fans of the Pynchon.

First time around, I learned a bit about the Brotherhood of Eternal  
Love.

http://www.ocweekly.com/2005-07-07/features/lords-of-acid

Second, in my previous job I had a lot of the on the job training  
concerning "Mineral Magic," Buddhism and the line of metaphysicians  
than runs from the theosophists through Waite and Crowley that has  
direct application to Against the Day and for that alone I'm grateful.


On Jul 26, 2009, at 12:49 PM, Paul Mackin wrote:

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> ----- Original Message ----- From: "Michael Bailey" <michael.lee.bailey at gmail.com 
> >
> To: "P-list" <pynchon-l at waste.org>
> Sent: Friday, July 24, 2009 9:22 PM
> Subject: Prising some Character and Emotion out of Pynchon's Books
>> However, "all have sinned and fallen short of the glory of God."
>> Something like Original Sin applies:
>> no writing, no matter how good, can be as real as Real Life.  Or  
>> maybe
>> this is more Goedelian, (or Crowleyian):
>
> which reminds me, if you have netflix and a fairly fast connection  
> catch "Crowley" on instant watch.
>
> Simon Callow possessed by Aleister is terrific.
>
> I thought of Robin, not because he's possessed but he does work in a  
> magic shop.
>
> P