BtZ42 Read

[Joseph Tracy]

As we have seen, there are a couple-three zeroes available for consideration. If you think of one zero as the hinge between dreaming and awake, those last questions about the impending missile/death seem to hover in that space, which is then dispelled by actual light and the goings on in the maisonette. If the dreamer of the dark train ride is one of the lost riding alone, here we have wastrels who in each other’s company  "look just as rosy as a bunch of Dutch peasants dreaming of their certain resurrection in the next few minutes“. Still, one has the feeling that any one of them could be the occupant of the ghost train in that nightly plunge into the dark.  That is the inherent psychological split in Calvinism’s  logical appropration of Pauline predetermination. 
   There is also a juxtoposing of the  often abstract but here real force of terror implied by scientific precision long range missiles with the boisterous freedom of these soldiers. Both armies are formed in major ways from a blend of Protestant, Catholic, earthy Peasant, and nationalist cultural forces.  This is not just a German-English split but a deeper internal split that is beginning to be elaborated: the control and predictability offered by a mechanized  and/or authoritarian world view vs. the dangers and pleasures of freedom often spent on fucking and getting stoned but potentially as sublime as morning light illuminating the world.  Both offer a cycle of death and resurrection as does the diurnal turn of the planet, both are embraced by liars and saints, and in many ways both are really part of the same whole. Inasmuch as the zero is also a circle there is no going beyond it.

> On Mar 16, 2016, at 3:59 AM, Ian Livingston <igrlivingston at gmail.com> wrote:/
> “There is no way out. Lie and wait, lie still and be quiet. Screaming holds across the sky. When it comes, will it come in darkness, or will it bring its own light? Will the light come before ar after?
> But it is already light, GR 5.
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> Are we beyond the zero at this point? What, exactly, is the zero? 
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> Is this birth? Is it Ra emerging from the egg? Are we at this point entering the new myth of the New Age? A myth peopled with
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> “an assortment of drunken wastrels, some in uniform and some not, clutching empty or near-empty bottles, here draped owver a cair, there huddled into a cold firplace, or sprawled on various divans, un-Hoovered rugs and and chaise lonues down the different levels of enormous room, shoring and wheezing at many rhythms, in self-renewing chorus as London light, winter and elastic light, grows between the faces of the mullioned windows, grows among the strata of last night;s smoke still hung, fading  from the waxed beams of the ceiling. All these horizontal here, these comrades in arms,  GR 5
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> “[I]f a purely hierarchic distinction is at once a criterium too general and too imprecise, there is nothing left to characterize the sacred in its relation to the profane except their heterogeneity. However, this heterogeneity is sufficient to characterize this classification and to distinguish it from all others, because it is very particular: it is absolute. In all the history of human thought there exists no other example of two categories of things so profoundly differentiated or so radically opposed to one another“ Emile Durkheim, The Elementary Forms of the Religious Life (1915, 1964) 33.
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