Gravity again

[alice wellintown]

if you don't believbe in Blake, Paul sez the same, Satan is the God of this
world," and so does John. In Pynchon, Satan is a poor bureaucrat who reads
Rike


On Sun, Apr 14, 2013 at 6:26 PM, alice wellintown <alicewellintown at gmail.com
> wrote:

> Satan didn't Fall; he was tossed out and down to the bottomless perdition.
> He is God of Earth, wyoming and nebraska, and al the other states, for he
> is, as Blake sez,  not a being but "the state of Death."
>
>
> On Sun, Apr 14, 2013 at 5:34 PM, Ian Livingston <igrlivingston at gmail.com>wrote:
>
>> Yeah, but Nebraska really suck more than Wyoming? Where did Satan land
>> when he fell to Earth? Did he fall to Earth? Or did he fall into some black
>> hole somewhere?
>>
>>
>> On Sun, Apr 14, 2013 at 1:09 PM, jochen stremmel <jstremmel at gmail.com>wrote:
>>
>>> The earth just sucks.
>>>
>>>
>>> 2013/4/14 Ian Livingston <igrlivingston at gmail.com>
>>>
>>>> What is gravity? To the best of my knowledge it remains undefined among
>>>> physicists. If Satan fell by cause of gravity, is gravity, then, whatever
>>>> is down? That would make for an awful lot of downs, I guess.
>>>>
>>>>
>>>> On Sun, Apr 14, 2013 at 11:40 AM, Lemuel Underwing <
>>>> luunderwing at gmail.com> wrote:
>>>>
>>>>> o-or something like that
>>>>>
>>>>>
>>>>> On Sun, Apr 14, 2013 at 1:40 PM, Lemuel Underwing <
>>>>> luunderwing at gmail.com> wrote:
>>>>>
>>>>>> Blake says that Gravity is but an invention of Newton.
>>>>>>
>>>>>>
>>>>>> On Sun, Apr 14, 2013 at 4:01 AM, Markekohut <markekohut at yahoo.com>wrote:
>>>>>>
>>>>>>> Satan, said Chesterton, fell through force of gravity.----C.S.Lewis,
>>>>>>> 1960 preface to
>>>>>>> The Screwtape Letters.
>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>
>>>>>>
>>>>>
>>>>
>>>
>>
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