Saturday 3 November 2018

Monday, 29 October 2018, Pages 505 - 507

Our reading stopped at "...would be finished with his tea?" (507.12)

Today's passage seemed mostly to be located in the Garden of Eden with references to God (Grand Precurser) Adam, Eve, Lucifer (looseaffair) turned into snake (Bomslinger) and apple tree (Upfellbowm). But it did turn in the end to HCE, a man of around fifty, struck on Anna Lynsha's Pekoe...

Joseph Campbell interprets the scene as a description "of the great World Tree, or World Axis, known to all mythologies. ... a primal symbol of Life. Eternally growing, eternally casting its dead leaves and branches, masculine and feminine and neuter at once, all-sheltering, ..."

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