M&D Deep Duck 4-6: Equator

[David Morris]

The Shadow is the dream character most often met in dreams. It is usually a
same sex 2nd central character in the dream. It is a familiar "other."  It
wants to be assimilated, accepted.  That is step one in the journey.

David Morris

On Sunday, February 1, 2015, Thomas Eckhardt <thomas.eckhardt at uni-bonn.de>
wrote:

> Am 01.02.2015 um 20:19 schrieb Joseph Tracy:
>
>> There's a strong literary convention that associates the loss of
>> shadow with the loss of soul. The crossing of the equator seems also
>> a crossing into the heart of the colonial enterprise, a point of
>> reversal where the lamb's passover liberation from slavery is
>> reversed and self proclaimed Christ bearers become slavers.
>>
>
> Shadow/soul/identity: In Derek Walcott's "Omeros", while on a boat near
> the equator, one of the protagonists suffers from a sunstroke when the sun
> reaches its zenith. His shadow then detaches itself from the body of the
> unconscious fisherman and travels back to the country of his ancestors,
> Africa.
> -
> Pynchon-l / http://www.waste.org/mail/?list=pynchon-l
>
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