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Many believe that in pre-modern communities, the community inhabitants | Many believe that in pre-modern communities, the community inhabitants | ||
| − | thought and felt much as if of one mind. See J. James book, The | + | thought and felt much as if of one mind. See J. James book, The Origins of Consciousness in the Breakdown of the Bicameral Mind. See an early Powell movie......[to be researched] |
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against the Day swelling near
just note.
whiten'd Rock Walls
White is the color of the buildings in the Columbian Exposition in ATD. White is usually the color of the elite in ATD. Also Cf. The White Visitation in GR.
James's Town
No curfew, everyone full of a good time, ruled by the moon. A Pynchon 'paradise". "Not Cape Town".
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no one here knows how he appears to anyone else
Americans there, then, exist independently. All status is more or less equal. A century later, Alexis de Tocqueville will write of the awareness by others--status consciousness-- in society
as a defining trait of Americans.
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strange mind-to-mind throb
Many believe that in pre-modern communities, the community inhabitants
thought and felt much as if of one mind. See J. James book, The Origins of Consciousness in the Breakdown of the Bicameral Mind. See an early Powell movie......[to be researched]
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Paradise
Age of Reason disposes of the notion. Cf. search for Shambala in ATD.
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violent explosion
Internal metpahor re America? Founded with violence, as many including D.H.Lawrence famously emphasised, which can erupt again at any moment?
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common acquaintance but lately withdrawn
The absent God, again.
