BTZ42Read: it has happened before

[Ray Easton]

How do you (any of you) read the second sentence?

Ray

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On March 14, 2016 11:42:31 AM Steven Koteff <steviekoteff at gmail.com> wrote:

> That sounds right. My instinct is that the shards falling are also shards 
> of even bigger delusions (or at least older) than that of care under the 
> state: older gods, projected cosmos.
>
>> On Mar 14, 2016, at 10:06 AM, Joseph Tracy <brook7 at sover.net> wrote:
>>
>> I keep thinking about the half-formed, half-formless but clearly perceived 
>> sense of a vault being shattered and shards falling. Starting at Guernica, 
>> and now reaching the seeming safety of England a new phase of warfare from 
>> the air has shattered the vaulted myth of civilian security within national 
>> military boundaries. The anonymous industrial ghost trains of lost souls 
>> has begun to roll.The boundaries between life and death are falling down as 
>> we enter an outpost of hell. In the debris that remains the substrate of 
>> consciousness has become machine-like, urban, humans living and moving in 
>> skeletons of iron.
>>
>>
>>> On Mar 14, 2016, at 2:40 AM, Ian Livingston <igrlivingston at gmail.com> wrote:
>>>
>>> “A screaming comes across the sky. It has happened before, but there is 
>>> nothing to compare it to now…."
>>>
>>> Okay, this is pure and simple association, but I must say the whole of 
>>> Jung's dream plays out quite well with the opening section of GR. Further 
>>> parallels as we go.
>>>
>>> “The crucial dream anticipating my encounter with alchemy came around 1926: 
>>> I was in the South Tyrol. It was wartime. I was on the Italian front and 
>>> driving back from the front line with a little man, a peasant, in his 
>>> horse-drawn wagon. All around us shells were exploding, and I knew we had 
>>> to push on as quickly as possible, for it was very dangerous.
>>>
>>> “We had to cross a bridge and then go through a tunnel whose vaulting had 
>>> been partially destroyed by the shells." C G Jung, MDR, 203.
>>>
>>>
>>>
>>> The Great Wars and the Depression between them left deep scars all across 
>>> Europe. It wasn't just the soldiers who suffered nightmares in the 
>>> aftermath. Jung's descent into the maelstrom led to his fascination with 
>>> alchemy, which in turn influenced the work of Campbell, Eliade, and others. 
>>> MDR was quite popular at about the time Pynchon was working on GR.
>>>
>>>
>>>
>>> Any other associations folks can relate to this opening? I think it 
>>> deserves all the color it elicits.
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