The Vormance chapters in AtD.

[Gary Webb]

Reminds me of Ancient Mariner:

“The very deep did rot: O Christ! 
That ever this should be! 
Yea, slimy things did crawl with legs 
Upon the slimy sea. 

About, about, in reel and rout 
The death-fires danced at night; 
The water, like a witch's oils, 
Burnt green, and blue and white. 

And some in dreams assurèd were 
Of the Spirit that plagued us so; 
Nine fathom deep he had followed us 
From the land of mist and snow. 

And every tongue, through utter drought, 
Was withered at the root; 
We could not speak, no more than if 
We had been choked with soot. 

Ah! well a-day! what evil looks 
Had I from old and young! 
Instead of the cross, the Albatross 
About my neck was hung. “

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> On Mar 7, 2019, at 3:20 PM, Jochen Stremmel <jstremmel at gmail.com> wrote:
> 
> The Cold Heaven
> 
> Suddenly I saw the cold and rook-delighting heaven
> That seemed as though ice burned and was but the more ice,
> And thereupon imagination and heart were driven
> So wild that every casual thought of that and this
> Vanished, and left but memories, that should be out of season
> With the hot blood of youth, of love crossed long ago;
> And I took all the blame out of all sense and reason,
> Until I cried and trembled and rocked to and fro,
> Riddled with light. Ah! when the ghost begins to quicken,
> Confusion of the death-bed over, is it sent
> Out naked on the roads, as the books say, and stricken
> By the injustice of the skies for punishment?
> 
> 
> As the books say.
> 
>> Am Do., 7. März 2019 um 11:30 Uhr schrieb Mark Kohut <mark.kohut at gmail.com>:
>> 
>> It does and a nice thematic link within the oeuvre.
>> 
>> But what keeps hitting me re these chapters is iceheartedness symbolically
>> elaborated and the Trespassers
>> and what they come back from.
>> 
>> Which could be a world turned Snow Piercer (entropy redo) apocalyptic, of
>> course.
>> 
>>> On Thu, Mar 7, 2019 at 4:51 AM David Morris <fqmorris at gmail.com> wrote:
>>> 
>>> Entropy gets very cold.
>>> 
>>>> On Thu, Mar 7, 2019 at 3:41 AM Mark Kohut <mark.kohut at gmail.com> wrote:
>>>> 
>>>> "Some say the world will end in fire, some say in ice"---Robert
>> Frost....
>>>> 
>>>> Rereading AtD after rereading Bleeding Edge and ice as darkest metaphor
>>>> for
>>>> us looms like an impending avalanche.
>>>> One of the surprises for me in reading Dante for the first time is that
>>>> there is ice in Hell...
>>>> 
>>>>> On Wed, Mar 6, 2019 at 7:52 PM Joseph Tracy <brook7 at sover.net> wrote:
>>>>> 
>>>>> Arctic Vortex.So Romantic, prometheus 3.0, the special vormance
>> edition
>>>>> swinging wildly through the northern hemisphere, taking lives, fueling
>>>> the
>>>>> fire that is coming. Hearts frozen in terror, importing more ice to
>> the
>>>>> center of the vast cultural indifference.  What is horror as a genre
>> but
>>>>> the subconscious screams emerging from the ever thickening detritus of
>>>>> denial.
>>>>> 
>>>>> 
>>>>>> On Mar 6, 2019, at 6:45 AM, Mark Kohut <mark.kohut at gmail.com>
>> wrote:
>>>>>> 
>>>>>> The arctic North. the cold, the ice and
>>>>>> so much atmosphere. Is this where P
>>>>>> gives us another of his ambiguous perspective
>>>>>> on "original sin", on our 'human natures'?
>>>>>> 
>>>>>> The objective correlative of our human badness? Jung's
>>>>>> collective unconscious writ Dantean?  That city he writes
>>>>>> of.....
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