Beyond the Zero Reading

[Mark Kohut]

The epigraph. Just ironic? Science
proving the "continuity of our spiritual existence
after death" ? --Von Braun.

Or a first ambiguity balancing on a fulcrum?

Beyond the Zero. Riff.

"A screaming, etc....'
What can one say anew about one of the most famous
opening lines and short paragraphs in literature?
An against the sky image.

Goes back in literature
to when the cosmos and earth were supposedly one.
Shakespeare, Milton, and almost all of Pynchon's
novels start off with a scene against the sky.
Double--check that fact-checkers.

Here, of course, the sky is attacking. Unity of 'the great chain of being
is gone'.

just a later tie-in...there is screaming when the submarines are under
the sands in Against the Day. Anywhere else?

Screaming. Like the horse in Guernica. Death in war.
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