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[SteganosaurusRex]

http://linguafranca.mirror.theinfo.org/9209/culianu.html

One begins to understand why some might prefer to remain anonymous.

[Exguisite Corpse]

[birdmadgirl123]

Hey, Steggy:

[birdmadgirl123]

Psst: Steggy..."The Whizzer" is a mysterious character mentioned in Chapter 5 of TLS:

[SteganosaurusRex]

No need to get rude (even if it is edited). I was doing the same thing so the comment was not directed at you, just a comment on overall approach. I think your months of closeness to the authors has gotten you a little sensitive.

You can work on whatever you want obviously. I have a sneaking feeling that, given my own lack of progress on the more argish side of things that this thread is not long for this place anyway. The connections you are defensive of are fascinating but it may not be enough to generate interest among those looking for args. We are guests here after all, and all my comments about "is this or isn't this" have not been meant to criticize the authors, just an attempt to be a good guest. Personally, I think we should just move all of this somewhere, just not sure where.

[GreatieMarten]

I'll learn to work the saxophone
I'll play just what I feel
Drink scotch whiskey all night long
and die behind the wheel
they got a name for the winners in the world
I want a name when I lose
they call Alabama the Crimson Tide
call me Decan Blue

[SteganosaurusRex]

There is definitely a Neil Gaiman influence here, I think, especially if you think of superheroes as "American Gods". And I definitely want to track down a copy of the Sandman collection, it sounds really interesting and I am not a reader of comics, even when called "graphic novels".

However, the Culianu book is really on my radar. I had heard of him and even that book but somehow I had never heard of his murder. Exquisite Corpse indeed. Andrei Codrescu, by the way, (not sure of the spelling) was friends with Culianu and edits a literary mag by that name. It also has meaning in the surrealist art world as a collective art project.

The names of our guests are most instructive. (Heh, GreatieMarten posted just as I was. Deacon Blue was just such an example. Character in a SD song and also puts me in mind of "decans" which we have discussed.)

[birdmadgirl123]

I must be losing my mind, since I forgot the most important connection in the "Diamond and Pearl" post:

From TLS:

[birdmadgirl123]

Steganosaurus Rex:

Am I too sensitive? Perhaps, but I also detect a kind of dismissiveness in your "voice" that sometimes I feel I have to respond to.

You were quite dismissive of my attempts to explain the Joseph Matheny connection (which is definitely ARG-related, is it not?), and then with the Spiral Staircase post, both of which in my view are integral to an understanding of TLS.

I have really admired your work on the arcane aspects of TLS, but it's not the whole story.

As to whether this is the right forum, I've maintained that it is not. Why not take it over to RI. Perhaps you could contact Jeff Wells and see where he thinks it would fit in?

[Decan Blue]

As Culianu points out: it's all about the "links".

That said, let us now turn to page 64 in our
copies of Adam Gorightly's 'Shadow Over Santa
Susana'. You know, the part where Charlie is
bestowed with the monicker "Giordano Bruno" in
a witchy "bus" ritual.

[SteganosaurusRex]

[birdmadgirl123]

Tasty tidbits from Eros and Magic in the Renaissance:

[SteganosaurusRex]

Don't suppose that text is available online in full anywhere?

[GreatieMarten]

if Charles is Bruno, then who is John Dee, and who is Kelley/Talbot, & Rudolph, & Gloriana, & the stupid git

I'm so tired

[Nostrildamus]