tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7414775977222684812.post3557231866617826362..comments2023-08-27T10:10:30.032+02:00Comments on Laws of Silence: Son of Man SonDauradehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/06296473494856239751noreply@blogger.comBlogger17125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7414775977222684812.post-42076401795921872402012-02-25T18:49:58.191+01:002012-02-25T18:49:58.191+01:00Great article! The Messiah today would be ignored...Great article! The Messiah today would be ignored or disregarded as a cultist. Unles of course he managed some miracles. But even then.... :)<br /><br />As for Rasputin's daughter, why not? John Tyler's grandsons are alive, why not Rasputin's daughter? I also read that an old claim by some French guy that he's Hitler's love child may in fact be true! <br /><br />http://Dauradehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/06296473494856239751noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7414775977222684812.post-15117682804017926782012-02-25T04:17:58.847+01:002012-02-25T04:17:58.847+01:00Recently heard that Rasputin's daughter is liv...Recently heard that Rasputin's daughter is living in California ... could this possibly be true?The Gidhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/04222098025692029885noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7414775977222684812.post-81345769722234973462012-02-25T04:16:11.640+01:002012-02-25T04:16:11.640+01:00Just read this well-written article on Jerusalem S...Just read <a href="http://www.wired.com/magazine/2012/02/ff_jerusalemsyndrome/all/1" rel="nofollow">this well-written article on Jerusalem Syndrome</a> today.<br /><br />A couple of choice quotes from the article:<br /><br />* "The whole act of pilgrimage is deliberately intended as a kind of disorientation"<br /><br />* "The syndrome is a brief but intense break with reality that The Gidhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/04222098025692029885noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7414775977222684812.post-88041870384032769122010-04-19T10:25:56.293+02:002010-04-19T10:25:56.293+02:00A not entirely unrelated volcano op-ed about our r...A not entirely unrelated <a href="http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2010/04/18/AR2010041802725.html?hpid=opinionsbox1" rel="nofollow">volcano op-ed</a> about our relationship to geography....<br /><br />"<a href="http://www.dailymail.co.uk/sciencetech/article-1266403/Iceland-volcano-space-The-dramatic-ash-plume-engulfing-Britain-seen-above.html" rel="nofollow">Meanwhile</aDauradehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/06296473494856239751noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7414775977222684812.post-62197604708702562742010-04-19T10:00:28.521+02:002010-04-19T10:00:28.521+02:00Mountain tops have always been holy places, certai...Mountain tops have always been holy places, certain ones anyway, Fuji, Mt Carmel, etc. Hence the pyrmaids, skyscrapers....<br /><br />"I was trying to allude to this sense of Rip Van Winkle ancient creepiness that I pick up from the deep woods on the north east US (almost a sense of trespassing), compared to the sense of the new in the west (more a sense of discovery)."<br /><br />I Dauradehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/06296473494856239751noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7414775977222684812.post-41116119442251050572010-04-19T05:33:58.497+02:002010-04-19T05:33:58.497+02:00@ Daurade
Shasta! I almost mentioned Shasta in th...@ Daurade<br /><br />Shasta! I almost mentioned Shasta in this piece, and I certainly thought of NM and my visits with you there.<br /><br />Shasta links to me through Pynchon whose California "trilogy" was, along with Didion, in the forefront of my mind as I thought about this stuff.<br /><br />Not that I'm trying to compare what I wrote to Pynchon and Didion--I'm just The Gidhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/04222098025692029885noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7414775977222684812.post-8246419050814962302010-04-19T05:24:43.822+02:002010-04-19T05:24:43.822+02:00@ Jon
Thanks, too, for mentioning Didion.
"...@ Jon<br /><br />Thanks, too, for mentioning Didion. <br /><br />"Slouching Toward Bethlehem" was the "unspoken elephant in the room" in this piece.<br /><br />I only read that collection of Didion's work recently, and she had a powerful impact on me.The Gidhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/04222098025692029885noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7414775977222684812.post-58859028372469730622010-04-19T05:19:55.584+02:002010-04-19T05:19:55.584+02:00@ Jon -
I was a tad, er, "overserved" ...@ Jon - <br /><br />I was a tad, er, "overserved" when I responded to yr comment early, so sorry if I didn't quite make sense. I was trying to allude to this sense of Rip Van Winkle ancient creepiness that I pick up from the deep woods on the north east US (almost a sense of trespassing), compared to the sense of the new in the west (more a sense of discovery). <br /><br />This is aThe Gidhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/04222098025692029885noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7414775977222684812.post-64903673987386160342010-04-18T11:58:04.206+02:002010-04-18T11:58:04.206+02:00I said Sonoma (AZ) above but meant Sedona! Oops.
...I said Sonoma (AZ) above but meant Sedona! Oops.<br /><br />"There is a specialized New Age tourist industry in Sedona, where the "Harmonic Convergence" was organized by Jose Arguelles in 1987. Some purport that "spiritual vortices" (local vernacular is "vortexes") are concentrated in the Sedona area at Bell Rock, Airport Mesa, Cathedral Rock, and Boynton Dauradehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/06296473494856239751noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7414775977222684812.post-52732245589140962602010-04-17T08:50:12.744+02:002010-04-17T08:50:12.744+02:00Nah, seriously, Jon,
There's this telling an...Nah, seriously, Jon, <br /><br />There's this telling and ongoing debate between hikers up the pacific crest trail and the Appalachian trail. Those on the PCT feel that they have the glory b/c their mountains are higher. But those on the AT shout about how their mountains are bigger from base to crest--and have fewer switch backs.<br /><br />I know that I sound off topic--but the point is The Gidhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/04222098025692029885noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7414775977222684812.post-56060927598439381442010-04-17T08:44:28.214+02:002010-04-17T08:44:28.214+02:00@ jon:
Yes! E. v. W.! The east coast is keepin...@ jon:<br /><br />Yes! E. v. W.! The east coast is keepin' it real! Them LA fakers be f*cked!<br /><br />Let's get it on!!!The Gidhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/04222098025692029885noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7414775977222684812.post-8406971306969462702010-04-17T08:33:42.384+02:002010-04-17T08:33:42.384+02:00@ Anonymous:
ho, ho -- very good! you got it ... ...@ Anonymous:<br /><br />ho, ho -- very good! you got it ... but why 42 over *13* years? there's the rub, the reintroduction of mystery and purpose for something, etc., etc. ...<br /><br />you might, by the way, enjoy this, if you're okay with the "f" word and the "c" word and a few other words: <a href="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jTifRi3qDkU" rel="nofollow">Peter The Gidhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/04222098025692029885noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7414775977222684812.post-33164474103749400632010-04-17T05:54:59.388+02:002010-04-17T05:54:59.388+02:00Dang. And here I thought 42 was the answer to lif...Dang. And here I thought 42 was the answer to life, the universe, and everything.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7414775977222684812.post-88377779158598482312010-04-16T14:54:46.317+02:002010-04-16T14:54:46.317+02:00i should edit! Then Handsome Lake I meant. not the...i should edit! Then Handsome Lake I meant. not the Handsome lakejonhttp://lastbender.comnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7414775977222684812.post-48983634089781288852010-04-16T14:53:12.543+02:002010-04-16T14:53:12.543+02:00Yow, I love this. Upstate New York is such a place...Yow, I love this. Upstate New York is such a place, at least in the early 19th century. The great awakening religious revival is said to have shot across upstate new york like a canon. Joseph Smith unearthed the book of mormon in a field near Elmira New York. The Handsom lake, dissolute Seneca sachem had a religious revelation, quit drinking and revived the spirits of his people. There have been jonnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7414775977222684812.post-45470394450325569272010-04-16T10:05:58.776+02:002010-04-16T10:05:58.776+02:00Yeah, this is correct. Actually, though, I propos...Yeah, this is correct. Actually, though, I propose there is only one syndrome and that we have names for certain manifestations because that's where we have the most tourists. Millions go each year to India, Paris, Florence etc., so it's more likely a few of these will flip out.<br /><br />There's no Des Moines syndrome only because there aren't very many tourists, for example.<Dauradehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/06296473494856239751noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7414775977222684812.post-26060996673263436262010-04-16T09:11:31.715+02:002010-04-16T09:11:31.715+02:00hey, daurade -- did i properly pluralize "syn...hey, daurade -- did i properly pluralize "syndrome du voyageur" as "syndromes du voyageur"?The Gidhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/04222098025692029885noreply@blogger.com