Fwd: Cof L49: Chap 4. Shall I project a reading?

Michael Bailey michael.lee.bailey at gmail.com
Mon Jun 1 20:21:10 CDT 2009


oops, obviously need more smart drugs


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From: Michael Bailey <michael.lee.bailey at gmail.com>
Date: Mon, Jun 1, 2009 at 9:20 PM
Subject: Re: Cof L49: Chap 4. Shall I project a reading?
To: Mark Kohut <markekohut at yahoo.com>


Mark Kohut wrote:
>
> I will post short posts, but often. Allows responses to be more matched with
> my posts (and part of the text). I hope many will interact; disagree with me.
>

good on ya.  May I say also, thanks to Laura and Rich, for getting
things in motion.
and apologies to both of you for not responding more copiously

and apologies to Mark also in advance for responding more copiously,
which I probably will as I'm off this week with minimal duties
anywhere, and have a bunch of legal, not even gray market smart
nutrients and additives to slip into my coffee.  There's some neat
stuff out there, but I'm loath to try anything on a work night (wimpy
I am, I'll gladly pay you Tuesday for a hamburger today)


> My working premiss:
> I'm often going to present "a" reading here. For somewhere to start.
> There are lots of insightful readings into TRP's work.  But some supposed 'insights', mine or >others,
> might be shown up by the text. Or, in other ways (if the speculation is too "curioser and >curiouser".)

so then, you won't be doing a point-by-point synoptic reading with
Alice?  Pierce the white rabbit, or maybe the Cheshire Cat; Bortz the
March Hare with his tea party; the Courier's Tragedy side-by-side with
the Red Queen's croquet match; nothing but a pack of cards vs nothing
but a lot of stamps?

> The other aspect of TRP I often post---since I do think he has great insight into our pendant world--
> is thematic stuff I run across that I think he, TRP, 'knows' with his vision. Just FYI.
>

cool, onward then

--
"...no matter what you did to its edges the true Pacific stayed
inviolate and integrated or assumed the ugliness at any edge into some
more general truth."



-- 
"...no matter what you did to its edges the true Pacific stayed
inviolate and integrated or assumed the ugliness at any edge into some
more general truth."



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