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

[Gene DA]

Interestingly enough, I've been playing around with a Tarot deck myself. I
did a one-card pull asking "How is my Mason & Dixon read going to go?"

I got The Tower, reversed.

On Sun, Dec 31, 2017 at 6:10 AM, Mark Kohut <mark.kohut at gmail.com> wrote:

> 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.
>>
>> On 31 Dec 2017 10:26 am, "Mark Kohut" <mark.kohut at gmail.com> wrote:
>>
>> "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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