Gravity again

[alice wellintown]

And Newton is only one person in the satanic trinity, we need to add Bacon,
and Locke it all up in a godless gravity machine of the senses set and
fixed for experiment. The song of a single sparrow refutes Newton's
mechanistic view, but Blake will se them in heaven next to Shakespeare.


On Sun, Apr 14, 2013 at 6:29 PM, alice wellintown <alicewellintown at gmail.com
> wrote:

> 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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