i am not doing ch 4 of TR correct?

[Michael Bailey]

say, Ed, if you want to switch, I'll do 6 and you can do 4, sounds
like you are revved up and ready to go?

(whereas I am not so much)

On Fri, May 6, 2011 at 4:57 PM, Edward A Moore <edmoorester at gmail.com> wrote:
> I believe I do ch 6 which is eons away
>
> but i stupidly have 2 open slots on the remaining chapters
>
> and i did not put anyone's name down
>
> so wanted to be sure
>
> I thought this was interesting p. 132 TR
>
> "the object of alchemy
> was not at all the transmutation of base metals into gold,
> but the preparation of medicines, thus opening the way
> for the hospitalized perpetuation of accident which we
> triumphantly prolong, enlarge upon, finance,
> respect and enjoy today. 3:3'diamino-4-4'-dihydroxyarensobenzine
> dihydrochloride, writes Dr Ehrlich (after 605 tries)"
>
> There is a film from 1940 called "Dr Ehrlich's Magic Bullet"
>
> http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dr._Ehrlich%27s_Magic_Bullet
>
> ". . . .after 606 tries he finally discovers the remedy for the disease.
> This substance, first called "606", is now known as Arsphenamine or Salvarsan.
>
> The joy of discovery is short-lived, as 38 patients who receive the
> treatment die.
> Dr. Wolfert denounces the cure publicly and accuses Ehrlich of murdering those
> that died from the cure. As faith in the new cure starts to dwindle, Ehrlich
> is forced to sue Wolfert for libel and in the process exonerate 606.
> Dr. von Bering (who had earlier told Ehrlich to give up his pipe
> dreams of cures
> by chemicals), who was called by the defense to denounce 606, instead
> states that he believes that 606 is responsible for the death of
> syphilis itself,
> the 39th death as he calls it."
>
> Reminds me of Pynchon's description of the serpent ouroboros in GR
> and Kekule's dream of it which became an inspiration for benzene
> structure
>
> Kekulé dreams the Great Serpent holding its own tail in its mouth, the
> dreaming Serpent which surrounds the World.
> --Gravity's Rainbow, V412
>
> ed
>



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