Musings & Vision

[rich]

kings and vultures



you pass the pages one by one

hoping to land on one of the squares

and maintain a solid defense.



but, children

there is no such square



only circles far above


On Sat, Aug 13, 2022 at 1:31 PM Cagliostro_the_Impossible via Pynchon-l <
pynchon-l at waste.org> wrote:

> From Ciudad del Este…I’m chased, but managed to sneak into the country
> through certain contacts amongst Lebanese smugglers… I have but one brief
> reprieve before I must contemplate what to do next…does one go North, or go
> further South… go further South, and live the gaucho life, whilst an
> Argentine mistress screams at me in Italian for not using a coaster… hmm,
> decisions…
> One remembers Snorre’s Prose Edda:
>
> “Then smoke wreathes up around the ash Ygdrasil, the high flames play
> against the heavens, the graves of the gods, of the giants and of men are
> swallowed up by the sea, and the end has come. This is Ragnarok, the
> twilight of the gods.
>
> But the radiant dawn follows the night. The earth, completely green, rises
> again from the sea, and where the mews have but just been rocking on
> restless waves, rich fields unplowed and unsown, now wave their golden
> harvests before the gentle breezes. The asas awake to a new life, Balder is
> with them again. Then comes the mighty Fimbultyr, the god who is from
> everlasting to9everlasting; the god whom the Edda skald dared not name. The
> god of gods comes to the asas. He comes to the great judgment and gathers
> all the good into Gimle to dwell there forever, and evermore delights
> enjoy; but the perjurers and murderers and adulterers he sends to Nastrand,
> that terrible hall, to be torn by Nidhug until they are purged from their
> wickedness. This is Regeneration.”
>
> Or go North, the realm of Dominus Blicero… the cold winter, and
> reflections of light through sheets of ice…sir kalte sophie…eisheiligen…
>
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