The themes dealt with so complexly in FW (in the style of abstract art, the art of inner-structure) can sometimes be seen in simpler, more familiar form in ...
Paul Albertsen
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Dec 4, 2000 9:29 pm
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Gabriel and Michael Fury in "The Dead" represent the strong and weak sides of lame Leo, even as do the pontificating Kurtz and his foolish admirer dressed in ...
Paul Albertsen
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Dec 6, 2000 7:51 pm
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Instead of Michael Furey in the role of Leo's weak-side (as I suggested earlier) contrasting with Gabriel as the strong-side, it might be more accurate to see...
Paul Albertsen
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Dec 7, 2000 7:46 pm
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There is at least one mistake in "The Seven Story Mountain" (Message # 82) which might confuse anyone trying to draw the figure: In paragraph 12, instead of,...
Paul Albertsen
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Dec 12, 2000 8:18 pm
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For those who want to follow-up on this, here is a very brief outline of the chapter-by-chapter zodiac in FW. Chapter One has already been covered in messages...
Paul Albertsen
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Jan 8, 2001 8:34 pm
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The egg in FW is first Humpty Dumpty, the egg of unity (1) which falls and is broken into division (2) and multiplicity (3) then is partially restored to ...
Paul Albertsen
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Feb 5, 2001 8:04 pm
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The main female figure in FW, Anna Livia Plurabelle (an expression of stage Three, Cancer, the stage of Plurality) is consistently associated with water and ...
Paul Albertsen
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Feb 12, 2001 6:13 pm
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The Grail King, Anfortas, suffered a grievous wound while fighting in the service of Orgeluse (the beautiful witch). As a result of that he is, "not able to...
Paul Albertsen
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Feb 12, 2001 8:03 pm
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I. Aries (0) XII. Pisces (12) II. Taurus (1) XIII. false Aries (13) III. Geminii-Cancer XIV. Geminii-Cancer (2-3)...
Paul Albertsen
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Feb 12, 2001 8:29 pm
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We have been discussing the inner-structure of FW, and its connections with the Bible and with Tragedy and Romance. So it might be relevant to explore other ...
Paul Albertsen
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Mar 18, 2001 10:48 pm
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We have seen (message #2) that the prankquean episode (pp.21-23) restates the initial quartet of numbers, and recapitulates the Genesis story from Adam to...
Paul Albertsen
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Mar 23, 2001 10:28 pm
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"Moby Dick" is a Tragedy. What does that ancient word mean? It means a story about the ritual killing of the sacred king. The dying-and-resurrected god. The...
Before shipping out, Ishmael attends a whaleman's chapel and hears a dramatic sermon on Jonah (the biblical prophet who was swallowed by a "whale"). That story...
What is the underlying message of the story of Dr. Frankenstein and the monster he created? [Written in the early nineteenth century by Mary Woolstonecraft ...
I believe this idea has been posted before. But it is still true, and I have added a postscript. Just before the traveling players arrive at Elsinore Castle,...
All Dramatic Tragedies grow out of the ancient ritual of killing the sacrificial king (Leo 4). The reason for that ritual might be in dispute, but it is clear ...
"I contango can take off my dud dud dirtynine articles of quoting here in Pynix Park..." p.534.11 H.C.E. is Adam in the garden, the park. He is the Stutterer,...
"I contango can take off my dud dud dirtynine..." 534.11 To sample yet further Joyce's virtuosity, his artistry, note that in the above passage he links Two ...
What does the name Humpfrey Chimpenden Earwicker mean? First, Humpty Dumpty had a great Fall off a wall. He was the egg of Unity that got broken. He is...
What does the name "Anna Livia Plurabelle" mean? Without pretending to cover every possibility, we might be able to make some sense of it. "Anna" is apparently...
There are at least two other ways of reading the number-geometry sequence. We might call them the pagan way and the Christian way: In the extreme of the pagan...
Can the story-telling number sequence be applied to the origin and development of the universe? It might be worth a try. And it might improve our understanding...
I have been reading your posts for a few years now. I find them well written, and thought-provoking. Several of my Jr. College essays that have been suggested...
"Recounting" can mean counting again or telling a story. And "tell" can also mean counting or telling a story. Can the story of the Universe be told from...
(continued) TWELVE When we combine the numbers of a major pair of opposites in the basic unit --- the flow of Time (female 3) and the structure of Space (male...
(continued) SEVEN Growth resumes, but in place of cellular growth (stage 6) there is now Social growth. And in a human context, the height of social...
