BEER - chapters 7 and 8, notes and questions

[Kai Frederik Lorentzen]

 >> p. 70: "They (Justin and Lucas) don't do metaphysical."
  - interesting, in light of the scrying thread.<<

Must be understood in connection to the passage on page 427:

"Even though its creators claim not to Do Metaphysical, that option in 
DeepArcher remains open, alongside more secular explanations (...)"

Let the Scrying go on!


On 10.11.2013 22:45, Thomas Eckhardt wrote:
> A few late notes and questions on chapters 7 to 8, hopefully not too 
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> Chapter 7
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> p. 68:
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> Melanie's Mall - an (early?) example of pink horror for girls:
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> http://www.melaniesmall.50webs.com/Files/largemallscan.jpg
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> The site says MM was produced in 1995 and 1997 and then faded away. 
> Was this huge? Was it the first of its kind?
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> Otis and Fiona invariably destroy the mall but the sympathies here 
> seem to be with them and the action figures laying waste to the 
> 'suburban idyll' (or perhaps these are only my sympathies). As with 
> the yuppie shooter (p. 33-34), the make believe violence hurts no-one. 
> Note that this is a different target: first Upper West Side yuppies, 
> then a suburban mall.
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> As Monte pointed out, the destruction of the mall center (and for me 
> especially the 'generic plastic bodies horizontal and disassembled 
> everywhere') obliquely prefigures the catastrophe about to happen in 
> the real world.
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> p. 70: "They (Justin and Lucas) don't do metaphysical." - interesting, 
> in light of the scrying thread.
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> p. 71: third line from the bottom of the page: 'there might not much 
> difference' - there seems to be something missing here, probably BE 
> (no, I don't attach any significance to it).
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> p. 72: 'Who was less innocent here?' - the line between fuckers and 
> fuckees blurring, as usual
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> 'seed and angel money' - 'seed money', ok, looked it up, but what is 
> 'angel money'
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> p. 73: 'American greenhorns of a century ago venturing into the 
> history-haunted Old World' - a nod to Henry James
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> p. 78: 'bleeding-edge technology' - first (only?) mention
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> Chapter 8
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> 83: Pre-9/11-paranoia sets in heavily. First hawala, then: 
> "'Something's up, (...) Maybe even something that's got to be 
> stopped.'" "bankrolling something, something big and invisible---"
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> Hashslingrz, perhaps a front for a US-government secret service, seems 
> to use hawala in order to provide secret funds to some entity in 
> Dubai. It is implied that these funds may be used for the terrorist 
> attacks on 9/11. As Robin said, this is what is derisively called 
> "truther" material. Of course, we will encounter a lot more of it later.
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> 84: Maxine is already developing a crush on Eric, "sherpa of the Deep 
> Web, faithful and maybe even cute".
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> 86: Public Void Close - seems to be Java Script. What does it mean?
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> Much thanks to Monte and Robin.
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> Thomas
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