M & D Group Read Cont. Or, I lost it at the movies.

[Mark Kohut]

"The Tower!"..p6, with excitement

"The Tower is everywhere".---Crying of L49.
The Cyrstal Palace was a tower.

There is that tower in AtD...into which the balloon crashes.

And what do they call a computer base but a tower?...Bleeding Edge. With
the fall of the Twin Towers.

Anciently, the tower reached to heaven. Tower of Babel, a cautionary
counter myth. See Golding's The Spire.
Latterly, a fortress, Joyce's Martello Tower, numerous others. Even more
latterly maybe, the symbol of
the highest achievement in a land, what it built the most, and a modernism
trope,
given writers by the amassing of examples in Frazer's Golden Bough,
pervades just about everything P wrote.
He sees it everywhere, puts it just about everywhere, its spiritual
meanings never meant or meant as lost, replaced by the latterly meanings.

The tower is everywhere.
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