Astrology

[gary webb]

This is very beautiful:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VvWPT4VhKTk

On Sat, Aug 1, 2020 at 8:17 PM David Morris <fqmorris at gmail.com> wrote:

> Fate is a real question amongst some Eastern philosophies.  Some say,
> “Nothing ever happened.”  I hate that idea.  Something is always happening,
> and we are all really here. But we are not all that is. More exists beyond
> common sight.  A lot more.
>
> David Morris
>
> On Sat, Aug 1, 2020 at 6:46 PM gary webb <gwebb8686 at gmail.com> wrote:
>
>> 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""
>>> > > --
>>> > > Pynchon-L: https://waste.org/mailman/listinfo/pynchon-l
>>> > --
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>>> >
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>>>
>>