BE: Chapter 12 (after one premature post).

[Mark Kohut]

The money is supposed to be earmarked for infrastructure"....
> "unless he---Gabriel---is up to his eyeballs himself, of course".....
> Which seems to be a new thought to Tallis.....
> *Nothing in this fundamental moment is what it seems. [my italics]...*
> Maxine thinks---figures out?---she is being played.

Marvin the messenger learns, mysteriously, of Horst's desire" ["This is
desire".]....
for that defunct ice cream and brings it unasked. Horst sez, "it's like
Chinese medicine.
Yang deficiency. Yin. One of them".....hilarious and does the Chinese
allusion remind
anyone else of the Golden Fang and it's mysterious cargo in Inherent Vice?

And then there is, over the top too much, this on the Easternization of the
West.


"Moving far beyond popular trends, Campbell assembles a powerful range of
evidence to show how "Easternization" has been building throughout the last
century, especially since the 1960s. Campbell demonstrates how it was
largely in the 1960s that new interpretations in theology, political
thought, and science were widely adopted by a new generation of young
"culture carriers." This highly original and wide-ranging book advances a
thesis that will be of interest to scholars in many disciplines in the
humanities and social sciences"...
McLuhan described this trend back in the '60s:
"“The East goes outer with our old hardware as fast as we go on the inner
cosmic trip of oriental fantasy with our new electric circuits and
circuses. The West has ‘discovered’ the I Ching and a concern with the
processes of hidden environments”. (McLuhan, Culture is Our Business, 1970,
p. 2)