gnostic esoterica

[Mark Kohut]

"Now we fly off".... I see what you did there...so gracefully. 

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> On Jul 9, 2017, at 5:52 AM, Jochen Stremmel <jstremmel at gmail.com> wrote:
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> 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.”)
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> http://www.nytimes.com/1971/03/19/archives/history-as-sciencefiction.html
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> 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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