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Pentecost.
Mr. Tea
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luka
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i dont understand.
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There's the program in Bleeding Edge too. There's a character called Windust who's put through it. They abduct children, put them through a brutal training regime and mould them into time-traveling, neoliberal enforcers.
luka
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have you written an essay about this i could read?
luka
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should i read that again? i remember thinking it was drippy and vague and dull.
Mr. Tea
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The 'psychic kids being experimented on/trained as weapons by sinister government types' comes straight from Akira, I think:
Although it's also in Scanners, but they're adults in that.
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Nah. Other people have already written it anyway. This is well worth reading,
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It's definitely one of his weakest, but there's still stuff going on. This might make you wanna re-read it,
Bleeding Edge by Thomas Pynchon
Another great multidimensional conspiracy adventure from one of the world's greatest living writers, actually one of the greatest alive or ...
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Bleeding Edge begins and ends with main protagonist, Maxine Tarnow, watching out for her kids. Walking them to school in the beginning, seeing them on to a elevator at the end.
She is introduced in the first paragraph. Maxine suggests maximum. The last word in the book is "least." Bleeding Edge goes from "maximum" to "least" though the similarity of its beginning and ending - both have the same characters present, both occur on spring-like days, both have pear trees blossoming, suggests a circularity in the narrative. The ending of Bleeding Edge connects to the beginning.
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"As Maxine watches (her children), sunlight finds its way past rooflines and water tanks to the end of the block, and into one particular tree, which all at once is filled with light."
Sunlight goes beyond any previously established limits and ends the blockage of water, filling the tree with light. It should come as no surprise that I interpret this tree as the qabalistic Tree of Life. The higher emotional center on the Tree of Life (Tim Leary's circuit 6) corresponds with the sphere of Tiphareth that also corresponds with the Sun.
If Bleeding Edge reads as an alchemical manual on one level, then Pynchon can't get any more transparent when he has Maxine say: "Guys, check it out, that tree?" right after the last quoted sentence. About as clear of an instruction as you can get.
Sunlight goes beyond any previously established limits and ends the blockage of water, filling the tree with light. It should come as no surprise that I interpret this tree as the qabalistic Tree of Life. The higher emotional center on the Tree of Life (Tim Leary's circuit 6) corresponds with the sphere of Tiphareth that also corresponds with the Sun.
If Bleeding Edge reads as an alchemical manual on one level, then Pynchon can't get any more transparent when he has Maxine say: "Guys, check it out, that tree?" right after the last quoted sentence. About as clear of an instruction as you can get.
luka
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Burroughs got disgustingly sentimental in the 80s. all that stuff about his stupid cats
