BDSL,1- Genetic Therapy for Inherent Vice
Michael Bailey
michael.lee.bailey at gmail.com
Tue Aug 17 05:11:41 CDT 2010
but isn't it pretty clear the text takes that into account in both books?
"what can't be cured, sure, must be endured, sure" (Joyce, in Portrait, right?)
also that Sailing to Byzantium has something about that too, doesn't
it? (not the famous part, the ragged cloak and so forth, but one of
the lines nobody remembers...)
On Tue, Aug 17, 2010 at 5:55 AM, <bandwraith at aol.com> wrote:
> I think we've been sold a bag of shit regarding Original Sin.
> Unfortunately, alpha male Gnossos, eventually to under-
> go beta decay, is as much a part of the problem as he is
> a cure. I've returned both IV and BDSL to the library- I no
> longer buy books if I can avoid it- so this idea, as
> developed in a comparison of the two, may take a little
> while. More, whenever.
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