NP but The Books of Jacob

[Mark Kohut]

Good.

 And now that I have felt this again in the typing, does it not remind of
Grigori---this oyster?

On Sat, Feb 5, 2022 at 5:16 AM David Morris <fqmorris at gmail.com> wrote:

> OK.  Now I’m getting interested.
>
> On Sat, Feb 5, 2022 at 5:10 AM Mark Kohut <mark.kohut at gmail.com> wrote:
>
>> SPOILER ALERT as I type out a great passage from the book,
>>  this and some happenings in the sand remind imaginatively of
>> TRP, the sand trek echoing in me--and you?-- parts of AtD, I
>> suggest.......
>> It does not read to me like any influence on her but who knows?  just an
>> imagination likeness.
>>
>> But this:           Of how the world was born of God's exhaustion
>>
>> "Every now and then, God wearies of his own luminous silence, and infinity
>> starts to make him
>> feel a little sick. Then, like an enormous omnisenstiive oyster, hs
>> body---so naked and delicate--feels
>> the slightest tremble in the particles of light, scrunches up inside
>> itself, leaving just enough space for
>> the emergence ---at once and out of nowhere--of a world. The world comes
>> quick, though at first it resembles
>> mold, delicate and pale, but soon it grows, and individual fibers connect,
>> creating a powerful surrounding tissue.
>> Then it hardens; then it starts to take on colors. This is accompanied by
>> a
>> low, barely audible sound, a
>> gloomy vibration that makes the anxious atoms quake. And it is from this
>> motion that particles come into being,
>> and then grains of sand and drops of water, which divide the world in two.
>>      We find ourselves on the side of sand. "---Chap 5, p. 870 (the pages
>> run backward numerically!)
>>
>> Ancient folktale-like created legend cum modern science storytelling
>> mystery of the cosmos. Will become famous, I say...
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