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Fool’s Gold (Notes on Lodge 49), pt 1
Last time, on Suspended Reason… Why is [Moby Dick] white? He is white, and very much blank, because he personifies […] the indefinable, “the universe” rather than the world of people, that which refuses to be nailed down to a particular meaning. […] Each character has a different response to the unknowable white whale, who…
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Text, Telos, and Ritual
I’ve been set free and I’ve been bound To the memories of yesterday’s clouds I’ve been set free and I’ve been bound And now I’m set free I’m set free to find a new illusion — “I’m Set Free,” The Velvet Underground “As time goes on… the universe becomes more and more what experience has revealed,…
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