Astrology

[David Morris]

So much fun!  Do our stars rule us?  Isn’t this a question about Fate,
and/or Free Will?  This is both an individual and a collective question.
Maybe also about Sisyphus.

https://www.google.com/search?q=sisyphus&rlz=1C9BKJA_enUS777US778&oq=sysi&aqs=chrome.2.69i57j0l3.5813j0j4&hl=en-US&sourceid=chrome-mobile&ie=UTF-8#imgrc=C_7hiDNrby23MM

David Morris

On Sat, Aug 1, 2020 at 4:10 PM Keith McMullen via Pynchon-l <
pynchon-l at waste.org> wrote:

> “Oh, don’t I remember those, Lens-brother,— ’tis our Burden. Kepler said
> that Astrology is Astronomy’s wanton little sister, who goes out and sells
> herself that Astronomy may keep her Virtue,— surely we have all done the
> Covent Garden turn. As to the older Sister, how many Steps may she herself
> indeed already have taken into Compromise? for,
>
> Be the Instrument brazen, or be it Fleshen, [Maskelyne sings, in a
> competent Tenor]
>
> Star-Gazing’s ever a Whore’s profession,— (Isn’t it?)
>
> Some in a Palace, all Marble and Brick,
>
> Some behind Hedges for less than a kick, tell me
>
> What’s it matter, The Stars will say, We’ve been ga-zing, back at ye, Many
> a Day,
>
> And there’s nothing we haven’t seen
>
> More than one way,
>
> Sing Deny o deny o day . . . [Recitative]
>
> > On Aug 1, 2020, at 1:43 PM, gary webb <gwebb8686 at gmail.com> wrote:
> >
> > Reading C.V. Wedgwood's Thirty Years War, and came across this line
> which
> > Pynchon mentions in Mason & Dixon, the part where Maskelyne and Mason are
> > casting each other's horoscope
> >
> > "A pseudo-scientific interest in Astrology was the fashion. Kepler
> himself,
> > half humorously, half indignantly, averred that the astronomer could only
> > support himself by ministering to the follies of astronomy's "silly
> little
> > daughter, astrology""
> > --
> > Pynchon-L: https://waste.org/mailman/listinfo/pynchon-l
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>