911 Prewarning

[Lemuel Underwing]

Take for Example the Spirituality of the East during the Hellenic Period...
in Trauma, reverted, stagnant... until suddenly an Emergence, even using
the dominant Greek Model, of an entirely new Form...
One can see this as an instance of Victory for a type of Counter-Force..?

On Thu, Feb 28, 2013 at 10:01 PM, Lemuel Underwing <luunderwing at gmail.com>wrote:

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>>  I witnessed the towers just after the first plane hit. All the
>> conspiracy theories are rubbish- mostly because they detract from the real
>> issue, the symbolic power of their destruction. Al Queda was hip to this as
>> early as 1993- when the morons tried to bring one of them down with a
>> garage bomb planted in a rented vehicle, after which they then tried to
>> recoup the deposit on! The only people stupider than Al Queda were the
>> various security agencies charged with protecting us from them.
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>> Pynchon's most specific reference to the symbolic power of the World
>> Trade Center occurs in Chapter 11 (as a self-signifier of moral
>> bankruptcy) of M&D- the twin gallows, shimmering on the horizon of St.
>> Helena, the two terms- capitalism and slavery- so essential for the western
>> enterprise. Reading it post-911 is enough to cause goose bumps- prescient.
>> And don't forget that steady wind blowing in (back) from the coast.  So
>> stop changing the subject. Al Queda was well aware of the location of our
>> "crotch" and it took them two kicks, but they finally caught us right in
>> the balls. If there was a conspiracy it was between those flea
>> bitten fanatic scumbags and our own stupidity.
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>> Since 911, any critique of the capitalist enterprise has been forced to
>> walk gingerly around the issue of sympathy for the devil. But coincidence
>> works in strange ways, and the demonic, despite its rabid hatred, is
>> sometimes twisted into the agency of The Good- much to its own chargrin.
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> Oh I am sorry I argued so with you earlier,-- as Much of this seems Spot O
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> Except for the part about it being complete without Theories (perhaps not
> so much 'Conspiracy' but 'Under-the-Table-Theories') opposed to the Popular
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