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

[Mark Kohut]

Everything connects.
With Pynchon.

On Sun, Dec 31, 2017 at 4:52 AM, Neel Shah <neelshah.sa at gmail.com> wrote:

> And we should never forget the Tarot with P.!
> https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Tower_(Tarot_card)
>
> Funnily, I'm also reading The Golden Bough right now.
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> On 31 Dec 2017 10:26 am, "Mark Kohut" <mark.kohut at gmail.com> wrote:
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> "The Tower!"..p6, with excitement
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> "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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