GR 156-170, colors, compounds

[Michael Bailey]

 Bled Welder wrote:

>
> I moved to the section start at 156.  Something's going on, something's
> going on, "AN ARMY OF LOVERS CAN BE BEATEN" okay check, got it, carrying on

hmm, that one stood out for me, too...
not really sure what to make of it, obviously compared to what, an
army of haters I guess
t would be funny if they track warlikeness down to a virus

army of lovers wouldn't necessarily want to beat people  (see Jessica
and Roger?)

the backdrop of the section being street fights between Nazis and
leftists, when you go out and beat on people to express your ideology
you probably are carrying the virus regardless of the fine points of
the ideology

yeah there's a weak point in my line, what about meeting a threat?  --
is that paranoia or due diligence?

> fetid back-court existence,

evocative phrase...maybe that's why they were so ready to hit the
streets, cruddy housing, a-and no p-list back then to solve world
problems on

> ""I'm listening, Herr Rathenau,"..."
> ""Tyrian purple, alizarin and indigo, other coal-tar dyes are here, but the
> important one is mauve...", "He is the expert on cyclized
> benzylisoquinilines...", "This is the sign of revealing. Of unfolding.  This
> is one meaning of mauve..."

so they have ol' Rathenau talking in a seance, who anyway is calling
him forth, I forget...
okay Peter Sachsa...Leni is there (mostly to get milk for her kid) but
they also have Smaragd from IG Farben and the Nazi Rippenstoss

so they are there to listen to Rathenau, whose death at least the Nazi
Rippenstoss is among those responsible for

and he gives them a strong lecture that really ought to make them
think twice (but of course they don't, being Nazis and all)

> First, revealing and unfolding is what happens with Being when it is
> thought, according to Heidegger.

was that before or after he said "Sieg Heil?"

>
> Then I remembered that half of my fictional work is about a chemist who is
> searching for a compound that cures blindness...

sounds interesting

> drug is that it causes him to see, either blindfolded or not, everything in
> shades of violet and white, though mainly a crystal, or methyl, violet.
>
> I didn't even know what mauve was until today, or that it had anything to do
> with Being!  That's just terrific--
>

for me mauve is a shade of purple that somehow lacks the joyousness of
real purple...
but that's subject to further information...good luck with your explorations!