TR and patterns and alternate pattern recognition

Paul Mackin mackin.paul at verizon.net
Mon May 9 08:36:06 CDT 2011


On 5/8/2011 4:50 PM, Edward A Moore wrote:
> "The truth about the world, he said, is that anything is possible. Had
> you not seen it all from birth and thereby bled it of its strangeness
> it would appear to you for what it is, a hat trick in a medicine show,
> a fevered dream, a trance bepopulate with chimeras having neither
> analogue nor precedent, an itinerant carnival, a migratory tentshow
> whose ultimate destination after many a pitch in many a muddled field
> is unspeakable and calamitous beyond reckoning."
>

In other words, everything ISN'T connected.

Except if you're on oneiriene or are just naturally paranoid.

P
> The Judge speaking in "Blood Meridian" by McCarthy
>
> What with all the pattern theme in TR I thought this an
> interesting juxtaposition
> I quoted something similar beforehand from same book
> so I think I have bled "Blood Meridian" a bit too much
>
> ed
>




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