BtZ: Some more banana molecule stuff

[rich]

thanks, Monte. I do find your posts very informative. my question is a
broad one. Based on what we know about GR and what you've described below,
one may argue that GR is not a book one holds dear or looks for solace in
our advanced years--at least that's what Ive been pondering lately. Without
taking anything away from how transformative the book was for this reader
in my early years, I can't help but feel an ever increasing distance from
it as the years get shorter and one begins to see death as a tangible thing.
I believe we find the tools we need to get through life as sanely and
humanely as we can when we need them and then move one
what says you?

rich

On Tue, Mar 29, 2016 at 4:22 PM, Monte Davis <montedavis49 at gmail.com> wrote:

> I've sought but not found coherence and consistency in how GR's symbolic
> geology, biochemistry, etc.  link life, death, and various layers of the
> earth. That scumbled bananery topsoil, the soil in which a Herero woman is
> ritually embedded, the hot radioactive mud at Bad Karma, and the deep
> strata of metals and hydrocarbons all have different symbolic freight, and
> each bears a different relation to natural life and assorted unnatural
> analogues of life. Likewise, flight gets a few good vibes, but its
> extension intso pace travel is clearly nixed and __nicht_ed as a route to
> Good Transcendence.
>
> Sometimes I think Pynchon never got the memo about the fruitful,
> nourishing, ever-rebirthing Earth Mother and the wise, justice-dispensing
> Sky Father -- or even the one about the brawny dumb earth god and serene
> Queen Selene. He's just a suspicious cuss all around.
>
>
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