BtZ42 Time in GR, early (for Monte, h/t to Kai)

ish mailian ishmailian at gmail.com
Tue Mar 29 14:56:53 CDT 2016


It's Bright Moments!

On Tue, Mar 29, 2016 at 10:55 AM, ish mailian <ishmailian at gmail.com> wrote:
> GR is a celebration, dare I say a song of praise of Nature, of Earth,
> its Diversity and its Natural Forces that sustain and maintain Life
> through Natural Cyclical Return. Now that Spring has returned here in
> the North American Continent, I find it so easy to see, all about me,
> in ever stone, the meaning in Pynchon's poetry. It is there in the
> amazing banana. In the amazing penis, not the one that somehow sees
> into the the future of rocket erections and launches and strikes, but
> in the phallic potency, the sperm that, amazing but true, swims, like
> a song played on a harp through rivers and oceans and across
> continents, and sure it carries Zika too.  The ICBM may cross oceans
> too, but it carries Death, Reversal, no Return.
>
> On Tue, Mar 29, 2016 at 6:52 AM, ish mailian <ishmailian at gmail.com> wrote:
>> Pirate and the Others are focused on the time of the Rocket. Its
>> speed, its distance, its V.
>> Our Being is in Earth not Sky.
>> We are not Angels (Rilke) or rockets, but fruit of the mortal and
>> immortal tree.
>> Like the Banana, the meshes only God knows of.
>>
>> On Tue, Mar 29, 2016 at 6:31 AM, Mark Kohut <mark.kohut at gmail.com> wrote:
>>> p. 6 "knives of the seasons", 'all stumbled together" ...of unbelievable
>>> topsoil
>>>
>>> p 11 "Pirate takes up the last dipper of mead, feels it go valving down the
>>> throat as if it's time, time in its summer tranquility, he
>>> swallows."........besides the possible compressed buried allusion to
>>> Dandelion Wine (as mead) also in Lot 49 notice that time ripens to good
>>> stuff......
>>>
>>> more to come.
>>>
>>> We live in, must embrace Time;  we find our being in time, as Heidegger
>>> might always be saying, but Kai will tell me fer sure.
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