Saturday, December 13, 2008

going down to Mexico city with visions in my head

LI arrived in Mexico City yesterday, after the horror of waking up at five - an hour when I am particularly averse to surrendering to the alarm clock´s diktat, as my erotic dream managers are just putting up the outerworks - the sauna, the classroom, the office, or perhaps my Grandparent´s dinnertable - for the exciting main attraction. Which I hope involves me - I do so hate dreaming about other people having sex. Anyway, at a certain point between 5 and 6, when the cab picked me up, I did or did not turn on the stove, to warm my apartment. I´ve had alarmed flashes of the stove being on, and even got a friend to go by the place so I can get the number of the management company and call them to check.

This might simply be myself wallowing in my fundamental funk. But burning out the stove´s heater would be no joke.

Anyway, I get a taxi, after going through the usual languages - English, my version of spanish, and gibberish - to explain the layout of Polanco, which you would think would not be mysterious to people who drive taxis around Mexico City. Although, granted, it is not a place that a taxi drive would live, since you would have to make about six time the taxi driver´s salary to rent an outhouse here. And as we plunged into what proved to be one of Mexico City´s banner traffic days, gridlock up your ass as far as you can see, the taxi driver pointed out the people on the sidewalk, clumps of them, carrying pictures of the sweet but remote virgin. It is the Virgin of Guadalupe´s day. They are walking to the basilica downtown. It is a long walk - twenty miles at least. Although, given the state of the traffic, I´d bet that a few made it to their destination before I made it to mine.

Later, my friend M. tells me her housekeeper took off to go on a running pilgrimage to Veracruz - the pilgrims are taken on a bus, dropped off at a spot, run for a certain distance, then are picked up by the bus and taken a little further and the process is repeated.

4 comments:

northanger said...

AQ 1846 = TWO DISTINCE MO'HIN COME TO Z'A: DIRECTIVE FORCES OF IMAH ARRIVE FIRST, AND THEN THE DIRECTIVE FORCES OF ABAH, SECOND (AQ-277 KABBALAH CONCEPTS) = XVIII OF CLAIRVOYANCE: AND OF THE BODY OF LIGHT, ITS POWERS AND ITS DEVELOPMENT. ALSO CONCERNING DIVINATIONS.

AQ 286 = MEXICAN PHOENIX (D. A. Brading - 2002; AQ-653 MEXICAN PHOENIX: OUR LADY OF GUADALUPE) = THE PERFECT TONE (AQ-240 THE TWO LANDS, AQ-260 THE NINE REALMS).

AQ 1792 = WAS NOT THE PRESENCE OF THE VIRGIN AT TEPEYAC SYMBOL OF THE EVER-WESTWARD MOVEMENT OF THE CATHOLIC FAITH? = IT IS AN ACTION THAT REQUIRES A SPECTATOR, SIMILARLY TO THE SPECTACLE OF THE FRENCH REVOLUTION FOR KANT (AQ-167 AB'S NOTES).

AQ 291 = CHALCHIUHCIHUATL = THE DOUBLE CROWN = THE URRT CROWN.

AQ 274 = BRINGER OF MAIZE = LORD OF THE DIADEM = WHITE-FIRE DIADEM.

northanger said...

AQ 6770 = FROM BLINDING LIGHT TO DISAPPEARANCE FROM THE IRRUPTION OF THE STATE TO THE EFFACEMENT OF ITS SUBJECT. WE RETURN TO LATE-CAPITALIST AMERICA BY WAY OF ANCIENT CHINA FOLLOWING THE SELF-DISPERSING BODY OF THE DESPOT. OUR FACE WHICH WE CANNOT COUNTENANCE IS HIS. AFTER ALL. LEAVE IT TO THE BUREAUCRATS. A HISTORY OF THE PRESENT FOR A LEADERLESS FUTURE THESE EYES WILL NEVER SEE. DO NOT ASK US TO REMAIN THE SAME (AQ-432 FIRST AND LAST EMPERORS :: 18-Jul-2007) = LORD OF THE URRT CROWN, WITH LOFTY PLUMES,* WHOSE DIADEM IS BEAUTIFUL, WHOSE WHITE CROWN IS HIGH.* MEHEN AND THE UATCHTI SERPENTS BELONG TO HIS FACE.* HIS APPAREL (?) IS IN THE GREAT HOUSE,* THE DOUBLE CROWN, THE NEMES BANDLET, AND THE HELMET.* BEAUTIFUL OF FACE, HE RECEIVETH THE ATEF CROWN.* BELOVED OF THE SOUTH AND NORTH.* MASTER OF THE DOUBLE CROWN HE RECEIVETH THE AMES SCEPTRE.* HE IS THE LORD OF THE MEKES SCEPTRE AND THE WHIP.* (AQ-415 LORD OF THE DOUBLE CROWN, AQ-415 LORD OF THE URRT CROWN; AQ-487 EGYPTIAN HYMNS TO THE GODS).

AQ 656 = FORCES FROM IMAH & ABAH ARE CALLED HIS TSELEM = DOUBLE-ARTICULATION, THE DOUBLE-PINCER = CEREMONY OF THE 4=7 GRADE OF PHILOSOPHUS = HOLDS TO THE PLEDGE OF THE THUNDERBOLT = SOLITUDINEM FACIUNT ET PACEM APELLANT = THE FIRST IS SILVER, THE SECOND IS GOLD = TRANSCENDENTAL OBJECT AT THE END OF TIME.

AQ 917 = ONLY THOSE WHOM HE LOVED COULD SEE THE LIGHTNING SCAR = SIGÜENZA Y GÓNGORA CHOSE PEGASUS… AS HIS PERSONAL EMBLEM.

AQ 540 = SIGÜENZA Y GÓNGORA CHOSE PEGASUS = ABSTRACT PRE-COGNITIVE ESSENCE (AQ-321 THE TaNTA ACROSTIC, AQ-321 TETH-NUN-TAU-ALEPH, AQ-321 NOVELTY THEORY) = VENUS, JUPITER, CRESCENT MOON.

AQ 529 = TWO DISTINCT MO'HIN COME TO Z'A = HYPERSTITIONAL OIL SEEPAGES = THE DISTINCTIONS IN THE TEXT = THE FOUR "FRONT LINE" ECONOMIES = THE ULTIMATE KEY TO VICTORY = THE UNIVERSAL ENERGY MATRIX (AQ-386 UNIVERSAL ALGORITHM = GODDESS OF SUSTENANCE = SET: UNEVOLVED DESIRE = SHRI BHAGAVAN YAMANTAKA = WAITING FOR A BETTER AGE ).

AQ 7080 {highest match} = THAT IT WAS A HAYSTACK THE CATALOGUE INFORMED ME. I COULD NOT RECOGNIZE IT. THIS NON-RECOGNIZATION WAS PAINFUL TO ME. I CONSIDERED THAT THE PAINTER HAD NO RIGHT TO PAINT INDISTINCTLY. I DULLY FELT THAT THE OBJECT OF THE PAINTING WAS MISSING. AND I NOTICED WITH SURPRISE AND CONFUSION THAT THE PICTURE NOT ONLY GRIPPED ME, BUT IMPRESSED ITSELF INERADICABLY ON MY MEMORY. PAINTING TOOK ON A FAIRY-TALE POWER AND SPLENDOR. (AQ-777 BEING AND EVENT READING GROUP: MEDITATIONS 31, 35 AND 36) = THE BOND BETWEEN HUSBAND AND WIFE IS AMONG THE MOST SOLEMN OF HUMAN RELATIONSHIPS. OF THE PRESCRIPTIONS OF RITUAL, NONE DEMAND MORE STRICT OBSERVANCE THAN THOSE OF MARRIAGE. AS THE HARMONY OF MUSIC BRINGS ORDER TO THE FOUR SEASONS, SO THE INTERACTIONS OF YIN AND YANG, THE MALE AND THE FEMALE PRINCIPLES, ARE THE ORIGIN OF ALL CREATURES. HOW THEN CAN ONE FAIL TO APPROACH MATTERS OF MARRIAGE WITH THE UTMOST CIRCUMSPECTION? (Sima Qian).

AQ 3505 = LIBER AL:III 64-67 LET HIM COME THROUGH THE FIRST ORDEAL, & IT WILL BE TO HIM AS SILVER. THROUGH THE SECOND, GOLD. THROUGH THE THIRD, STONES OF PRECIOUS WATER. THROUGH THE FOURTH, ULTIMATE SPARKS OF THE INTIMATE FIRE = O ADONAI AND MY MASTER, I HAVE BORNE THE INKHORN AND THE PEN WITHOUT PAY, IN ORDER THAT I MIGHT SEARCH THIS RIVER OF AMRIT, AND SAIL THEREON AS ONE OF YE. THIS I DEMAND FOR MY FEE, THAT I PARTAKE OF THE ECHO OF YOUR KISSES.

AQ 255 = 2 BIG FULL MOONS = PANIS FARREUS (AQ-646 DIRECTIVE FORCES OF IMAH ARRIVE FIRST, AQ-646 KEY ADDRESSED CRYPTO ENCAPSULATION ).

AQ 138 = 12-DECEMBER-08 = BRIDAL BED = TEPEYAC.

AQ 166 = 11-JANUARY-2009 = PERSEUS = VIRTUAL.

AQ 232 = 12-DEC-2008 FULL MOON = DOUBLE-PINCER (AQ-364 DOUBLE-ARTICULATION, AQ-364 INFINITE EXTENSION, AQ-364 LORD OF THE TWO LANDS, AQ-364 SEVEN STAGES OF LOVE) = SILVER MOON.

AQ 344 = 11-JANUARY-09 FULL MOON = DALET-VAV-ZAYIN-QOF = PROCTER'S PROCESS (AQ-686 EXTRACTUM PRUNI VIRGINIANAE FLUIDUM, AQ-686 AND THEN THE DIRECTIVE FORCES OF ABAH, SECOND).

AQ 732 = METHOD OF MATCHED ASYMPTOTIC EXPANSIONS = THE MERGING OF AUSAR AND RA INTO A TWIN SOUL.

AQ 231 = ASYMPTOTIC = DOUBLE CROWN = URRT CROWN.

AQ 113 = MANUS = 12-DEC-08 + 11-JAN-09.

AQ 302 = 12-DECEMBER-08 + 11-JANUARY-09 = THROUGH THE DUAT.

AQ 1148 π = A CURVE CAN INTERSECT ITS ASYMPTOTE, EVEN INFINITELY MANY TIMES = AFTER ESSAI DE THÉODICÉE, A WORK BY BARON GOTTFRIED WILHELM VON LEIBNIZ.

northanger said...

AQ 1206 = THOU SENDEST OUT LIGHT, THOU RISEST WITH [THY] TWO BEAUTIFUL EYES = I DRANK AND DANCED ALL NIGHT WITH DOUBT AND FOUND HER A VIRGIN IN THE MORNING.

AQ 1389 = GEOMETRY STUDIES TRANSFORMATIONS OF SPACE, AND THESE CURVES ARISE AS A RESULT = THE DOUBLE CROWN IS STABLISHED ON THY HEAD. THY LOVE PASSETH THROUGHOUT EGYPT.

AQ 707 π = CATALOGUS NOVUS STELLARUM DUPLICIUM = THE DOUBLE CROWN IS STABLISHED ON THY HEAD = THE ROOT OF THE POWERS OF FIRE ~ ACE OF WANDS = THE RITUAL OF THE CONCOURSE OF THE FORCES.

northanger said...

AQ 352 π = 11-JAN-09 FULL MOON @ 03:26:459939 UT [+] = BUT TO BRING A SWORD = THE EVOLVING DESIRE = WAND OF DOUBLE POWER.

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