Re: Linear as you like / SMMJ / where’s Bekah?

[Cagliostro_the_Impossible]

As I was sayin' to the guide, the old Roman poet Virgil, I was sayin' that it's been a very strange life, born & raised in SoCal... and there's this ancient tradition of human sacrifice in LA which is undeniable... a-and the only difference between us & the ancients, the "old ones", is is'at we film 'em, at least the rituals, as the victim is strapped to the post to appease the great & mighty Kong... and there is no coincidence that you have Marlowe in SoCal, and Sam Spade in NorCal...those Thesean brushings... Someone has to right such a drastic Karmic imbalance...

But I'm just an old Head, the circus left town without me again. I left the LA burbs in the 70s, only to follow some friends who did a lot of acid, and were getting software jobs up North, not knowing much about it at the time,I figured what the hell as we drove up the Pacific Coast, and then my brain gets fuzzy again... Now, my friends did very well, I never could get hip to the scene, could never look those vaguely sociopath VC dudes in the eye, they were very Patrick Batemen-esque, an it made my skin crawl... so I left to go east (Ex Oriente LUX!) with my karma still intact (or as much as it could be), as I sit here in my ex-Old's basement, somewhere in the Middle West after the bomb went off, early 21st Century...as the seasons change, the German Harvest festivals, all very strange to a gypsy from the beach...So we drove up the Pacific Coast, and it was at that time my brain gets kind of fuzzy again...

and, from the disparate remnants of a scattered consciousness, lost in the bit bucket of some terminal machine, plugged in after years idleness, the host server of an old network...

Jes grew, and Papa La Bas, the only detective we need right now, with his offering to the loas...



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On Thursday, October 22, 2020 6:20 AM, Mateus Domingos <hi at mateusdomingos.com> wrote:

> I usually fall behind with these, so i've made a start already!
> I had been making progress through Antkind, but it sure is nice to jump
> into Mumbo Jumbo.
> 10 pages a week sounds good.
> I have a digital version and it's available to borrow from
> https://openlibrary.org/books/OL24214584M/Mumbo_jumbo
>
> best,
> mateus
>
> On Thu, 22 Oct 2020 at 11:04, Mark Kohut mark.kohut at gmail.com wrote:
>
> > O Becky....so sorry for all the travail ..and danger and the illness of
> > your granddaughter. Please all get well soon...
> > Since I brought up the Group Read of *Mumbo Jumbo, *and I am happy some
> > here want to, I'll own the start of it
> > unless someone else wants to go first.....my copy, Scribner paperback, is
> > 218 pages with then a partial bibliography!
> > never noticed before. And have you ever seen in a fiction? First thing to
> > noticce.
> > .....maybe some might supplement with some readings from within those
> > books. (I've got a
> > v good interlibrary loan university in my town and it is right across the
> > street).
> > Re: pace. Some of those sections are less than a page and I don't yet know
> > how densely intriguing they might be.
> > Although the beginning is allusively, curiously intriguing and commentary
> > might unfold like Jes Grew does in section 3...
> > I like it already a lot...
> > Maybe 10 pages a week broken around sections? Or only 5 pages a week, same
> > thing re section approximation
> > and time for whatever backing and filling we do?
> > Vote. We are an anarchist democracy here, known as a direct one.
> > On Thu, Oct 22, 2020 at 3:00 AM Becky Lindroos bekah0176 at sbcglobal.net
> > wrote:
> >
> > > Here I am - I didn’t have the Covid but I had surgery which eventually
> > > forced me to move (in June) to a tiny town in North Dakota (about 50
> > > miles
> > > south of Canada) to be closer to family and where my granddaughter is now
> > > confined with the Covid. Granddaughter's parents, a school teacher and a
> > > farmer, are also confined. And my mother is also here, also confined,
> > > but
> > > to a nursing home. No Covid for me yet but I’m very cautious - kind of
> > > isolated.
> > > I’m up for a read of Mumbo Jumbo - sounds fun.
> > > Bekah/Becky
> > >
> > > > On Oct 22, 2020, at 12:11 AM, Raphael Saltwood <
> > > > PlainMrBotanyB at outlook.com> wrote:
> > > > Mark Kohut:
> > > > Anyone up for a Group Read before it is too late to save our pale
> > > > prejudices?
> > > > Cagliostro the Impossible:
> > > > (“I'm going to be completely honest as I sit here writing, my memory is
> > > > a little fuzzy since 1966. It goes in and out. I remember Manhattan
> > > > Beach,
> > > > and that tall vaguely Zappa looking fellow, a writer of some note...Mr.
> > > > Pynchon, I presume? I do remember the acid I was on with the Mothers of
> > > > Invention Freak Out spinning on the turntable, then in 1967 the return of
> > > > Barnabas Collins (look out Willie Loomis!), followed by some strange
> > > > scenes
> > > > inside the Canyon.
> > >
> > > > In 1973, our hero publishes his magnum opus Gravity's Rainbow, so
> > > > exciting and so much to talk about!”
> > > > —- good times!)
> > > >
> > > > > But in all honesty, yes I would indeed be all for a group read of
> > > > > Ishmael Reed,
> > > > > perhaps start with Mumbo Jumbo?
> > > >
> > > > > > I cede the floor to the committee!
> > > >
> > > > Hear hear.
> > > > For your consideration, it’s got 55 chapters, an epilogue and a
> > > > “partial
> > > > bibliography”
> > >
> > > > 57 weeks?
> > > > ————
> > > > Subjective memories of Mumbo Jumbo:
> > > > Referred to a bad guy as 200 lbs of toxic waste
> > > > Jes grew
> > > > “Look at the Mormons [they concocted a myth] and they got Utah”
> > > > Iirc was pretty fun to read, if you like that kind of thing
> > > > —————
> > > > Hope Bekah is okay, didn’t she have an early encounter with the COVID?
> > > > --
> > > > Pynchon-L: https://waste.org/mailman/listinfo/pynchon-l
> > >
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> >
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