tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5887440039323868659.post2545216356368366445..comments2024-03-28T22:15:25.617-07:00Comments on RAWIllumination.net: Pale Fire online reading group, Week 10Cleveland Okie (Tom Jackson)http://www.blogger.com/profile/07810736442596736041noreply@blogger.comBlogger2125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5887440039323868659.post-7602247061522818402018-03-20T14:14:25.753-07:002018-03-20T14:14:25.753-07:00Thanks Tom. The photo is from mixing a 2017 album...Thanks Tom. The photo is from mixing a 2017 album by Achilles Wheel. We just finished and released their new album, Sanctuary which can be found with a google search. People who like the Grateful Dead or Americana music would probably appreciate this album. <br /><br />This week's section ends with a provocative sentence: "The poets plan is to display in the very texture of his text the intricacies of the "game" in which he seeks the key to life and death (see lines 808 - 8290)." This reminds me of Leary's (with contributions by RAW) qabalistic masterpiece, "The Game of Life" The alliteration of "p" and "t" correlates with the paths of Pe and Teth on the Tree of Life which are the two crosspaths below the Abyss and the Supernals. They get suggested for study to beginning students after they've gone through Tiphareth.<br /><br />Let's look at those lines in the poem: <br />Line 808 - "Just this: not text, but texture; not the dream<br />But topsy-turvical coincidence<br />Not flimsy nonsense, but a web of sense"<br /><br />Could coincidences point to this "key to life and death?" RAW talks about a web of synchronicities in "Cosmic Trigger."<br /><br />The whole section of lines 808 - 829 rewards contemplation in this regard. It concludes with:<br />Line 826 "...Coordinating these <br />Events and objects with remote events<br />And vanished objects. Making ornaments<br />Of accidents and possibilities."<br /><br /><br /><br />Oz Fritzhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/06061222169144560970noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5887440039323868659.post-51401669423943348952018-03-19T17:49:48.797-07:002018-03-19T17:49:48.797-07:00Kinbote's criticism of the reading of "wi...Kinbote's criticism of the reading of "wide-awake indolents" reminds me of Bruce Sterling's observation of the influence of "invisible literature" on the cyberpunks, the sort of things Gradus read.<br /><br />The note to line 662 mentions this song: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5XP5RP6OEJI<br /><br />Eric Wagnerhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/04312033917401203598noreply@blogger.com