tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5887440039323868659.post2313657033904439948..comments2024-03-27T18:12:22.027-07:00Comments on RAWIllumination.net: The Widow's Son reading group, Week EightCleveland Okie (Tom Jackson)http://www.blogger.com/profile/07810736442596736041noreply@blogger.comBlogger6125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5887440039323868659.post-6126368665117592072019-10-20T16:08:29.909-07:002019-10-20T16:08:29.909-07:00From Siggy’s claustrophobic viewpoint (alone in hi...From Siggy’s claustrophobic viewpoint (alone in his reality tunnel) we zoom out to glimpse a much wider picture of others living in their own channels, observed by the All-Seeing-Eye of the omniscient narrator. Fascinating and evocative historic details make this book particularly interesting, to me.<br /><br />I would love to know what reference books RAW had while writing this. I believe I read somewhere that he and Arlen collected encyclopaedias at one time (?) but I might assume he didn’t travel to Ireland with his whole library (?) Perhaps <b> Prop Anon</b> might know (he has been researching for his biography of Bob).Alias Bogushttps://www.blogger.com/profile/10908752518788179717noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5887440039323868659.post-78975558783330532612019-10-13T08:42:45.784-07:002019-10-13T08:42:45.784-07:00Thanks for the correction on Speculative Masonry, ...Thanks for the correction on Speculative Masonry, I hadn't heard that term before. I know very little about Freemason nomenclature.<br /><br />p. 62 Bluejay edition: "..."Count" Casanova, and a more recent Italian fraud, "Count" Cagliostro ..." RAW puts "Count" in quotation marks both times. When a qabalisti who communicates on multiple levels does this, then I count. Casanova = 197; 197 = El Supernus which I associate with the Supernal triad Kether, Chokmah, Binah and may relate to the meaning of his name "new house." Cagliostro = 391 for the name up to the last letter + 70 for the o. 391 = Salvation, help; The Inscrutable Height [Kether]; 70 = Pan = All. This counting appears to reflect The Great Work.Oz Fritzhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/06061222169144560970noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5887440039323868659.post-39843143801797339302019-10-12T14:57:58.854-07:002019-10-12T14:57:58.854-07:00The chapter is set in 1771; I looked it up and Moz...The chapter is set in 1771; I looked it up and Mozart was only 15 that year, with all of his best-known works yet to be written. And is four years before the American Revolutionary War begins. The American Revolution itself is well underway, in terms of colonial agitation. I thought Gregory's background on the chapter was very interesting. <br /><br />Cleveland Okie (Tom Jackson)https://www.blogger.com/profile/07810736442596736041noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5887440039323868659.post-2489813705063630052019-10-12T09:20:12.273-07:002019-10-12T09:20:12.273-07:00@Tom- great connection! I should have caught that-...@Tom- great connection! I should have caught that- although I've never seen (or read) the play. <br /><br />@Oz- If Corporations are people, does that mean we can guillotine them? I was horrified by that story. <br /><br />"Speculative Masonry" is a term used in traditional Masonic lodges as opposed to "Operative" (actual stone working) masonry. (I hope I read the comment correctly.) <br /><br />I enjoy de Selby's commentators very much. Rarebit Fiendhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/09650603980195179414noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5887440039323868659.post-62667746673594101612019-10-12T07:52:20.556-07:002019-10-12T07:52:20.556-07:00Excellent fleshing out of history and context!
If...Excellent fleshing out of history and context!<br /><br />If Pacific Gas and Electric (PG&E), California's so-called primary electrical "provider" (lol) had a Bastille, it would have been stormed by some of the millions (900,000 customers i.e. households and businesses) of Northern Californian's who had their power deliberately turned off for days by corporate decision, reinforcing the perception of evil behavior by heartless Corporations.<br /><br />As far as I can tell, "Speculative Masonry" (p.59 Bluejay and earlier) appears a RAW neologism.<br /><br />p. 63 "Prof. La Puta." I'm told la puta = the whore in Spanish.<br /><br />RAW refers to Sigismundo frequently by both his names, Sigismundo Celine, in the chapters around his capture and imprisonment starting on p. 45 "Sigismundo Celine was in the process of becoming a non-person." Both his names are used at the start of Chapter 13, the start of Chapter 14, the first sentence of Chapter 15, and on p. 59 and p. 61. Perhaps the repeated use of both names shows Sigismundo's struggle to hang on to his identity, to not become a non-person?Oz Fritzhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/06061222169144560970noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5887440039323868659.post-75141706159650750142019-10-11T11:02:10.756-07:002019-10-11T11:02:10.756-07:00The film and play Marat/Sade influenced Wilson. He...The film and play Marat/Sade influenced Wilson. He quotes from the play in the de Sade essay in Coincidance.Eric Wagnerhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/04312033917401203598noreply@blogger.com