Astrology

[gary webb]

Yes, Sisyphus... the eternal recurrence phenomena, is this the true way of
the world? Was the lama right, is it all an illusion? the samsara, or
whatever you call it, i don't know...we do live in a vapid age, the kind
where Maxine goes to her Buddhist psychologist, Buddhist by way of
California btw, to talk about the Brady Bunch. The illusions are powerful
these days, a metric called virality, that can simultaneously coexist in
both the digital and biological worlds, and the madman's final
question...did we make them or did they make us? Then there's that paranoia
added into the equation too, the hidden variable buried deep in the
equation, or the dungeon rather, like why are the days of the week named
after Teutonic pagan gods? A-and like, the days of the week in French are
named after celestial bodies, seem to anyone like one of those
Conspiracies, the ones that we'd choose to ignore... An ancient cult of
Babylon...

Maybe, there is just the eternal Will, the Will of Schopenhauer... and that
once the veil of illusion is removed you see the true face of it, the death
cults of Kali, then the path to Nirvana awaits to the true initiate, and it
is only through art that it is possible to transcend to the immaculate
cosmic forms of Plato, or descend the stairs in final madness, or to be
reincarnated as an alchemist, whose suddenly discovered *Livre des figures
hieroglyphiques* by Flamel... the one who has finally summoned the
Godhead...

Maybe one day we primates will understand the phallacy (Priapism (
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Priapus) anyone?) fallacy of our
logocentrism... or the drugs will finally just wear off...

On Sat, Aug 1, 2020 at 6:41 PM David Morris <fqmorris at gmail.com> wrote:

> 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""
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