V2nd, C3

[Ian Livingston]

I wrote yesterday:

And in walks Harmakhis (Thoth), the falcon-headed god of ancient Egypt
who endowed the Egyptians with science, writing, and beer. Well, the
first two directly, the latter by extension. I don't guess there is
much new to say HB-G's name. Very cute.

I have to correct myself here. As I lay waking in bed this a.m., it
occurred to me that the falcon-headed god was Horus, son of Osiris,
who pursues his father's killer, Set,the god of storms, through the
heavens in the course of the year, assembling the pieces of his
father's dismembered body so that Isis could breathe life back into
him at the winter solstice, when they couple for three days and Isis
gives birth to Horus, so the sun is reborn, and Osiris descends into
the underworld to rule the kingdom of the dead.

Thoth was ibis-headed.

My apologies.

On Sat, Jul 17, 2010 at 6:16 PM, alice wellintown
<alicewellintown at gmail.com> wrote:
> You may want to skim Adams on Darwin. Didn't Darwin and Kelvin wrestle
> with the age of the earth, as Henry does, when searching for his
> geological father in his Chapter on Darwin? Yeah, maybe that yellow
> cloud is heat death of the universe.
>
> not so sure about Bernay here, but I do find the conradian secret
> sharing and dostoyevskian doubling of double maltese secret agents and
> falcons narrative within narrative a bit like not in Kansas anymore
> and, as I'm always reading about herds and following the yellowbrick
> road in my FT and WSJ and, as this is a major theme of Adams, where
> the art experts can not even tell a novice why or if a painting is
> worth anything (Adams's chapter on art--xiv) and as the banks go belly
> up on exuberance and excessive tulip madness and mobs and mobs of
> crowds...I wuz looking to Mark's reading of the truly exciting
> chapters from Adams--like Chaos.
>
>
>
> http://cognet.mit.edu/library/books/mitpress/0262540835/cache/chpt17.pdf
>



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