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No...look...argh...getting frustrated here.
Monkey: "The Crack" is where the Filth have their headquarters. Slade isn't asking what dept. he's in - he's asking where exactly he is. Y'know, "under the surface of everything you ever knew"....the microscopic world of control - this is the Outer Church via the super context, remember?
1 finger: Unity. The divine fuck.
2 Fingers: Division. Self and OTHER.
3 Fingers: (basic numerology this) next stage of unity after 1. Point A, point B and the energy that moves between them - communication
Not to mention the RKO style signals emanating from the hand itself.
Not sure, but have a feeling the hand symbol historically represents Hermes or Mercury.
Mother Dirt is speaking, not "poor autistic La Pen" (another Mercurial symbol - Mecury/Hermes being the scribe/messenger of the Gods). Christ, it's obvious the sector Nil and Slade are in is all about the (evil)divine word....
And, of course, Mother Dirt herself say's "here, in the frequency agents led by La Pen specialize in the Mercurial arts"....and later, if yr paying attention, Nil and Slade leave the area through an arch-way, above which is the three fingered hand-symbol.
Oh, and the three fingered hand-symbol is hanging about even before Mother Dirt breaks it down, so to speak.
Kay?
Phew.
I just want this stuff straight so that, if people want to talk about the symbolic landscape of the book, they can do so without getting all muddled. And because I'm anal.
I have a feeling that the Filth could be going with a gnostic model (to some extent it alreay is), but, right now, Grant's interested in us getting to know the demi-urge - to chat, to, as nice Mr. yawn points out, "make friends". |
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