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There's this great story called Pierre Menard, Author of the QUIXOTE, by Borges. It tells not of the visible works of this writer, Menard, which are mostly trivial and silly, but his invisible scripts, where Menard actually authored some portions of Cervantes' "classic." He didn't copy them, mind you, he generated them originally from within himself. The idea was that most of the themes from Quixote are polarized through a more contemporary writer writing them. When Cervantes wrote of one aspect with almost no hidden intent, Menard words would seathe with hidden political intent. Even though the passages quoted are identical.
The idea is that of orginality, and what it is, or isn't. Certianly, Grant wasn't the first person to make the simple observation, but he was the first guy to link up things like fractal geometry, mystecism, quantum theory, weird homeless/drug ravings and whatnot, and put it all in a book called the invisibles.
Well, maybe he wasn't even the first person to do that, if even half of the things I've heard, seen, or felt, are true. He made the ideas his, for sure. But it would best be taken as a bird shit warning, and little else, as long as you're only willing to look so deep into its meaning... for you.
mbz
[ 16-09-2001: Message edited by: Monkey Boy Z ] |
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