cuneiform trumpet

[Madeleine Maudlin]

Speaking of the Flood.  I had an opportunity to read Genesis and then,
what, the next one after that, Luke, about six weeks ago.

My favorite part of of Genesis is how, oh shit lemme try to get this right,
who can remember this shit ever, okay the first thing Noah does when gets
off the boat, floods over terra firma all that, he makes a blood sacrifice,
then grows grapevines, gets hammered, gets nude, then casts a curse on not
his son who finds him nude, but that son's son.  His grandson.

Who is...Canaan!

Then the whole rest of Genesis all the Jews ever do is go in and rape and
rob and murder the Canaanites until ultimately God gives the Jews the
land...because they were chosen!  Fuck the Canaanites!

Canaan's sin?  Having a drunk hateful spiteful ignorant pagan grandfather.


On Thu, May 24, 2012 at 3:25 PM, Madeleine Maudlin <
madeleinemaudlin at gmail.com> wrote:

> Ah, muted.  Indeed.  I believe that secret resonances and unseen or
> unheard signals might fit nicely with enticing ideas that form when you
> consider the supposed origin and unknown development of cuneiform, like all
> advanced civilization that just sort of appeared around then, after the
> deluge.  Where'd *this* letter come from?  Who sent this?
>
> Who was delivering the mail from the *other side* of the Flood?
>
>
> On Thu, May 24, 2012 at 3:01 PM, David Morris <fqmorris at gmail.com> wrote:
>
>> http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Crying_of_Lot_49
>>
>> I'd never thought of Cuneiform, yet it does bear a similarity, except
>> for the circular handle of the horn.  But the similarity is the result
>> of the triangular shape of the stylus pressing into the clay, forming
>> the horn shape, essentially giving a direction to the marks, the start
>> of the line.  A "formal" connection, but w/o content.  BTW, I'm not a
>> COL49'er either.
>>
>> For me the muted horn has deeper resonances, a secret signal, a
>> whisper, a clarion kept low.
>>
>> But the very minimalism/abstraction of the sign does invite other
>> resemblances.
>>
>> David Morris
>>
>> On Thu, May 24, 2012 at 10:25 AM, Madeleine Maudlin
>> <madeleinemaudlin at gmail.com> wrote:
>> > I'm no Lot 49head.  But I was looking for those two Cuneiform/Sumerian
>> or something symbols Bled said he saw while dosed, and I was just noticing,
>> has anyone noticed that trumpet symbol is Cuneiform?  Just checkin.  Keepin
>> the 49ers on their toes.
>>
>
>
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