[UA] Re: Bitterness

[John C]

>- I haven't read / watched most of the influential novels / movies UA
>apparently is based on. For instance I had never heard of Tim Powers or
>Charles DeLint. I did order a book by Powers, though, so I'm about to 
>remedy
>that. Therefore, many things presented in UA are doubly arcane to me;
>incidentally many references on this list are, too. For instance, his
>highness, the Royal Minister of Stuff advised me: "(...) Like Edward
>Leedskalin and the coral castle in Florida or the Flying Dutchman." Clearly
>we've got vastly different frames of reference because I haven't got the
>slightest inkling who E.L. might be, have only seen a couple of photos of
>the coral castle and only a fleeting, faint memory of the Flying Dutchman.
>In other words, UA attracts a lot of people with similar (sub-) cultural
>background which isn't quite as easily available here in Germany.

Reading Powers always gets my UA inspirations flowing, especially _Last 
Call_.  I’m re-reading it even now, in fact, and this passage struck me as 
particularly UA appropriate:

“...and what he thought about more than anything else was what it had been 
like to live in only one body, to experience what only one person could 
live; and he tried to imagine being vitally connected to the eternal and 
terribly potent figures that secretly animated and drove humanity, the 
figures that the psychologist Carl Jung had called archetypes and that 
primitive peoples, in fear, had called gods.”

_Last Call_ has it all; furious action *and* occult weirdness.  It’s also 
responsible for so many people being stuck on the True King avatar, I think.

John Crimmins
john1x at hotmail.com
http://www.voicenet.com/~johncrim


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