gnostic esoterica

[Jochen Stremmel]

Thompson steps outside, and now we fly off toward the lunar landscape of
the Yeatsian dream. (Thompson's proliferating mandalas are simple
variations of the gyres in Yeats's “A Vision,” which in these pages begin
to seem like something more than the metaphorical foundation for great
poetry that was politely sniffed at in graduate schools during the 1950's.)
Using as his point of departure the Hudson Institutes and the American
Academy of Arts and Sciences' plastic visions of the year 2000 (and are
they made to seem plastic in these pages!), Thompson hurtles to a point in
lunar mindscape where history is myth and myth is history. (California
again; Oedipa Maas's paranoid glimpses of the Trystero System in Thomas
Pynchon's haunting novella, “The Crying of Lot 49.”)

http://www.nytimes.com/1971/03/19/archives/history-as-sciencefiction.html

2017-07-08 11:34 GMT+02:00 Monte Davis <montedavis49 at gmail.com>:

> Um, Thompson's At the Edge of History was published in 1971. Boy, did I go
> for those explain-it-all mandalas.
>
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