V2nd, C3

[Ian Livingston]

Oh, one of those days, I see. I failed to correct the HB-G to HB-S.

On Sun, Jul 18, 2010 at 10:31 AM, Ian Livingston
<igrlivingston at gmail.com> wrote:
> 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
>>
>
>
>
> --
> "liber enim librum aperit."
>



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