tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5887440039323868659.post2873103332152892502..comments2024-03-27T18:12:22.027-07:00Comments on RAWIllumination.net: Coincidance, Week 11Cleveland Okie (Tom Jackson)http://www.blogger.com/profile/07810736442596736041noreply@blogger.comBlogger7125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5887440039323868659.post-41973122262235868732013-11-28T15:03:32.971-08:002013-11-28T15:03:32.971-08:00I forgot to mention that Simon Moon's name fit...I forgot to mention that Simon Moon's name fits right in to the notion of No Waters in Cherry Valley by the Testicles as an allegory for Crossing the Abyss. The cabalistic path most closely associated with this ordeal, Gimel, corresponds with the Moon in ancient planetary symbolism.<br /><br />Washington promoting Moon also seems most appropriate in this allegory.Oz Fritzhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/06061222169144560970noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5887440039323868659.post-43055667507539535222013-11-27T06:45:47.664-08:002013-11-27T06:45:47.664-08:00If Coincidance was laid out like a cabalistic Tree...If Coincidance was laid out like a cabalistic Tree of Life then No Waters in Cherry Valley by the Testicles would represent the ordeal of Crossing the Abyss. The Abyss often gets represented as a desert ie No Waters.<br /><br />Aspects of this essay remind me of a theme from Pynchon's Bleeding Edge whose main antagonist, Gabriel Ice, has a name suggesting frozen waters.<br /><br />The King Kong references seem an extension of the same theme symbolized by the Werewolf earlier.<br /><br />George Washington's name fits right in. Testicles recalls "test" for me.<br /><br />Although a little off geographically, these sentences seem a little precognitive of 9/11/01:<br /><br />(p.212) "It wasn't the planes in the Waldorf Astoria on me in all directions."<br /><br />(p.213) "The wreckage of mid-town Manhatten was also the howling bottle of wine.Oz Fritzhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/06061222169144560970noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5887440039323868659.post-42827416867643425452013-11-25T18:53:38.198-08:002013-11-25T18:53:38.198-08:00When I pass Cherry Valley driving on the I-10 east...When I pass Cherry Valley driving on the I-10 east of San Bernardino, I think of Bob Wilson’s writing.<br /><br /> <br /><br />This week’s reading reminds me of Philip Jose Farmer’s “After King Kong Feel” - http://www.scribd.com/doc/44705942/Philip-Jose-Farmer-After-King-Kong-Fell .<br /><br /> <br /><br />I had forgotten the frequent references to Casablanca.Eric Wagnerhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/04312033917401203598noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5887440039323868659.post-50643774432315558872013-11-25T16:24:32.695-08:002013-11-25T16:24:32.695-08:00Re: RAW and Siggy in the Ohio woods near Yellow Sp...Re: RAW and Siggy in the Ohio woods near Yellow Springs. See RAW's account of his own really hellacious belladonna trip there in 1962, gathered in Email To the Universe, pp.138-141, "La Belle Dame Sans Merci."<br />michaelhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/13526042582094867513noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5887440039323868659.post-62067112971742444182013-11-25T08:50:54.903-08:002013-11-25T08:50:54.903-08:00Just would like to leave a couple of little Bob mo...Just would like to leave a couple of little Bob moments that happened over the weekend. On holiday in Thailand and a friend gave me and the gf a weekend voucher to a hotel/ executive residence in Bangkok and we were, of course, ensconced on the 23rd floor. Then today go and visit another mate who is living in an apartment block over a shopping centre. He's drunk and drags me into an irish styled pub on the ground floor. The waitress brings the drinks menu and i see it's called Flann O'Brien's. Then he shows me his apartment - it's on floor 32Illiaminatedhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/01090400668214422251noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5887440039323868659.post-3339063984318893062013-11-25T07:26:52.195-08:002013-11-25T07:26:52.195-08:00It's been "forever" since I've r...It's been "forever" since I've ready Nature's God. Adding it to my growing reading/re-reading list.<br /><br />In addition to fits and giggles I got from just reading the Cherry Valley piece, I got this image of the Vatican pope selection process. All those red robed cardinals locked aaa, each laying their dicks on the table. longest one wins. But then, was it hard or limp comparison? If hard (or both) what did those oh so holy fellows have to do to get it hard? Pray or play? gacordhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/17664333796816042721noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5887440039323868659.post-21535192684953742342013-11-25T06:56:44.143-08:002013-11-25T06:56:44.143-08:00I think of "Shrapnel" as a preview of Na...I think of "Shrapnel" as a preview of Nature's God, which Bob hadn't finished yet when Coincidance came out. I remember rereading it for clues about Bob's upcoming novel.Eric Wagnerhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/04312033917401203598noreply@blogger.com