Against the Day & Romances & the heavens

[Mark Kohut]

The 'music of the spheres' was a concept of ultimate cosmic harmony 
from before Shakespeare used by him, perhaps most thematically
in Pericles (and maybe The Tempest)
 
In Against the Day, TRP makes sure he tells us that the heavens contain
voices calling out all together in all directions at once. Like a school choir but
no tune." p.19......from the Bindlestiffs experience
 
Then, that the Chums feel a hostile force 'energy they could feel directed personally at them'.....
(although "no projectiles" screaming across the sky yet)
 
TRP lays down his metaphoric markers re the cosmos as we live in it now. 
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