Astrology

[David Morris]

Yes. But Sisyphus is about eternal burden.  What everyone must bear upon
birth, our inescapable being until death’s release.

On Sun, Aug 2, 2020 at 4:10 AM Mark Kohut <mark.kohut at gmail.com> wrote:

> That last line wins the day!
>
> Sent from my iPhone
>
> > On Aug 1, 2020, at 7:49 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""
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