IVIV20: Gateway to the past, 351-352

[Michael Bailey]

 Mark Kohut wrote:
> Well, whatever meanings, as we know from Pynchon's work, resonate beyond
> the symptomatic, it does seem to me that California as "the ark'--as Cailifornia goes, so >goes the nation (in his work), so to speak---is one
> layer of meaning. The Golden Fang boat is how America was 'saved', he says with the deepest irony....
>

"resonate beyond the symptomatic" - is that a quote, or is it you?
Neat phrase either way.  It reminds me of some of the things I've been
reading as part of my resolution this year to read up on homeopathy
(initially in order to understand why "a lycopodium type" turns up in
AtD a couple times)

A different paradigm, where by looking at symptoms the ambition is to
treat a person, not a disease.  Lots of case histories, interesting
successes, (lots of ridicule (and worse) from AMA, but "blessed are
you when men shall revile you...") fascinating biographies, so forth.
Also, a tradition that's been largely disinherited...

One thing I found that makes me think homeopathy has some light to
shed on AtD (and vice versa) is that "Spongia Tosta", the name of the
Venetian noble house, is an homeopathic remedy:
http://www.abchomeopathy.com/r.php/Spong
I don't remember this coming up during the read, but my memory
sometimes fails to resonate beyond the symptomatic!



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