The Lake, the arch, the Deep Arch, Her, the digital cave, the underworld, the womb

[Dave Monroe]

On Sun, Jan 19, 2014 at 8:04 PM, Joseph Tracy <brook7 at sover.net> wrote:

> What is this lake in the human psyche, this womb-like feminine place of watery shapeshifting, fear, separation, violence and desire? One place Pynchon readers find multiple variations on this image is the novels of Thomas Pynchon.  Ever fascinated with underground worlds,  the mysteries of the feminine and sometimes both, he takes us down into this terrain again and again. The feminine becomes the bionic succubus of death, the rain of hope hidden in secret caves, , a lake fucked foul from the four directions, the mother who clings, the mother who abandons, the mother of resistance to fascism and patriarchy, the mother of nuclear annihilation, the mother of the sanctified rats.
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>       And the world was without form and void, darkness on the face of the deep. Breath moved on the waters.   Science says about the same thing.
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> It is here again in Bleeding Edge. On the edge of deep waters where the towers fell. Down into the grave, down into the dark with the Mother , into the basement where the drones patrol,  down the money trails, into the hells we thought were a joke, down to the subway station, preparing for departure. The waters boil with blood. Dark toxic clouds roil through the streets.  Deep Archer? Should we take a sword, a bow, a software language, a pistol or the time machine of our bodies; should we take naked dreams, seed packets, intuition, a key to the cavern where the pure waters rain? Is this a tomb or a womb? Going down.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Grotto

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kh%C3%B4ra
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