BEg2 ch 34 - karmic balance

[rich]

or to quote Patti Smith: 'why must not death be redefined'?

rich

On Sun, Oct 9, 2022 at 1:01 AM Michael Bailey <michael.lee.bailey at gmail.com>
wrote:

> ....
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> And with earlier references during Maxine’s tour to people living within
> DeepArcher who no longer live on earth.
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> I associate this loosely with Takeshi’s karmic adjustment business in
> _Vineland_ and the Thanatoids.
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> So many patently unjust outcomes cry out for some kind of recourse.
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> As Bob Dylan sang, “Death is not the end.”
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> In _Vineland_, Takeshi and DL are working on some kind of solutions for
> Thanatoids such as Weed, and maybe eventually Vond.
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> The nascent computer stuff in VL has burgeoned into the Internet and
> DeepArcher in BE.
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> DL & Takeshi were meeting their Thanatoid clients in barbecue joints and
> celebrity roasts (“Knight of the Living Dead”) and helping them by means
> largely  unspelled-out in the novel.
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> Their karmic adjustment biz has a more sharply fraud-focused BE counterpart
> in Maxine’s “Tail ‘Em and Nail ‘Em” - and information about injustice’s
> depredations on the dead and the living is more available than ever in
> prosaic form on the Internet & instantiated poetically in DeepArcher.
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