V--2nd. Chap 14, V. in Love

[Richard Ryan]

Precision in this fascinating sense also plays a meaningful role in John
Crowley's fine Aegyptus (as do a hodgepodge of retro-pagan religions)...


On Fri, Jan 14, 2011 at 2:58 PM, Ian Livingston <igrlivingston at gmail.com>wrote:

> > In astronomy, precession refers to any of several gravity-induced, slow
> and
> > continuous changes in an astronomical body's rotational axis or orbital
> path.
> >
>
> Note, too, that the precession of the vernal equinox is what provides
> the nomenclature for the "ages" of the world, as re: the Piscean Age
> that is now transitioning to the Aquarian Age (which, by the way,
> according to the literature, should be marked by the dominance of
> science and reason--not a hodgepodge of retro-pagan religions.)
>
> On Fri, Jan 14, 2011 at 6:52 AM, Mark Kohut <markekohut at yahoo.com> wrote:
> > I have reread Pynchon's Entropy, written around the time of V.
> > New emphases and things to observe and remember but for our purposes
> here,
> > just a couple....
> >
> > Henry Adams is name-checked in it by Callisto, who may not be the
> most reliable
> > character
> > in the story so his remark needs weighed for irony but he, riffing on
> Adams'
> > exploring love and power in history sez they are one and the
> same...........
> >
> > "Callisto found himself in much the same state over Thermodynamics, the
> inner
> > life of that power, realizing like his predecessor that the Virgin and
> the
> > dynamo
> >
> > stand as much for love as for power; that the two are indeed identival;
> and that
> >
> > love therefore makes the world go round but also makes the boccie ball
> spin, the
> >
> > nebula  precess." *
> >
> >
> > In astronomy, precession refers to any of several gravity-induced, slow
> and
> > continuous changes in an astronomical body's rotational axis or orbital
> path.
> >
> >
> >
> >
>
>
>
> --
> Klaatu barada nikto
>
>


-- 
Richard Ryan
New York and the World
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Poetry is a way of taking life by the throat.
                                --Robert Frost
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