Posts Tagged ‘synchronicity’

Moscow Pyramid, Norway Spiral Update

Tuesday, December 22nd, 2009

The dating of the Pyramid UFO sighting by Pravda appears to be a deliberate fabrication. This is revealed by a number of Western media reports dating the sighting to December 9, and Russia Today news story that was posted on Youtube on December 11. In the absence of any official report on the UFO pyramid, Pravda’s report appears to be a disinformation effort by mixing a fabricated date of the pyramid UFO sighting with more compelling evidence that it was widely seen and filmed in Moscow. The disinformation effort appears intended disassociate the Moscow pyramid UFO sighting with the Norway light spiral on December 9 apparently caused by a failed Russian missile.

Pravda hides link between Kremlin UFO pyramid & Norway light spiral” by Michael Salla, Honolulu Exopolitics Examiner 12-19-09

Fox’s Television Show called Fringe, shown on the same day as Flash Forward, complements both Flash Forward and V. This was done through the character William Bell on Fringe who is played by Leonard Nimoy who is perhaps best known as playing the character Spock on Star Trek. The character William Bell has been featured as communicating in front of the World Trade Towers still in tact from a Parallel Universe with a parallel Earth. In this same episode “shapeshifting” aliens with the ability to take on a human appearance had already been presented as infiltrating our own Earth in a post 9/11 world, in the aftermath of the World Trade Center’s destruction.

Fringe alludes to a prevailing interdimensional war and efforts by Manipulative Extraterrestrials to compromise human free wills through creating time-space breaches. Such shapeshifting entities have been documented by David Icke, who in turn got his information of African elders like Zulu leader Credo Mutwa, who documented eyewitness accounts among African elders of Manipulative Extraterrestrial “shapeshifters”.

In light of a global context that is governed by insiders that may have been further comprised by regressive aliens with a human appearance, Flash Forward, Fringe and V may provide critical insights into an extraterrestrial context to what many people perceived as a wormhole. The Norway spiral indeed had an appearance consistent with a wormhole.

Mysterious spiral lights over Norway provokes debate” by Peter Tremblay, The Canadian National Newspaper Exopolitics Headlines, 12-17-09

Six episodes into Abrams’ series Alias (recommended by my pal Mike because “It reveals stuff”) at the moment; it’s rad, and I’ll write up my thoughts on it so far soon.  Also watched the first episode of the V remake a month ago and thought it likewise rad (they do the Blue Beam thing real nice), though for shizzle not as rad the original miniseries.  Moving on, something I missed in my last post on the Spiral:

Whatever the case, it is hard to escape the impression that the Norway Spiral is a kind of thought-form that took tangible form and inscribed itself in the atmosphere.

***

I have spent a good deal of time trying to fathom the archetypal signature of Barack Obama, who seems to me, generally, not like a normal human but more like some kind of eerie interpellation into our reality. Personally, I could not bring myself to vote for him, and when I hear him speak, I am put off by his capacity to dissimulate ingeniously, to fake compassion that he does not feel, and to twist rhetoric in service of the status quo of earth-destroying Empire. This is the second significant example of “signs and wonders” seemingly associated with him: the first was the “Miracle on the Hudson,” the crash-landing of a jumbo jet in the Hudson River where all passengers and crew survived, a few days before the inauguration.

Thoughts on the Norway Spiral” by Daniel Pinchbeck, Reality Sandwich 9-10-09

Or interpolation.  And, dude, it’s way more than the second example of seeming “signs and wonders” linked to our deeply creepy Pharaoh.  For what it’s worth, here’s the EISCAT data for the 9th and CERN’s Sergio Bertolucci discussing unknown unknowns like a “door” to a “compactified dimension” of which “could come out something” or to which “we could put in something”.

Look up and cuídate.

UPDATE, 2-10-10

Told my pal Oliver about the spiral and he told me about St. Sunniva,

St. Sunniva is Norway’s only female saint. According to legend, she was an Irish princess who fled from Ireland in the 10th century along with her brother, Alban, and small party of Christians. They were probably fleeing from the Vikings.  They set out in three small skin boats without oars or sails, and let God decide where they would reach land.

The voyage took them to the island of Selja, of the northwestern coast of Norway. Earl Håkon heard that strangers had landed on the island and went to see who they were. In fear, Sunniva and her party hid in a cave in the cliffs. They prayed to God to hide them so that no man should kill them. Suddenly, part of the cliff collapsed, closing the entrance to the cave. When the earl and his men reached the island, there was no one to be found.

Later, in 966, a wondrous column of light appeared over the site and bodies of Sunniva and her party were found intact. King Olaf Trygvasson built a church near the cave  in memory of Sunniva, and Selja became a place of pilgrimage. Around 1100, Benedictine monks moved to the island and founded Selje Monastery, dedicated to Sunniva’s brother Alban. Her shrine was later moved to Christ Church in Bergen.

Eight stories about saints” Museum of Cultural History, University of Oslo

The sagas tell us that Olav Tryggvason built a wooden church by the cave where St. Sunniva was found. What happened? There are several versions, but they don’t differ radically.

Sunniva was a king’s daughter from Ireland, where Christianity had made early inroads. To escape betrothal to a heathen chieftain, she fled eastward in a boat lacking sails and oars. She landed on the island of Selja, but an attempt to kill her, or at least expel her, was made by heathens lead by the Viking Håkon Jarl. He was opposed to newcomers. She and her men were forced to hide in a cave on the island. The refugees prayed to God to send angels to break down the mountain and bury them, and the rocks tumbled down. Their souls soared to heaven in a spire of light which all on the mainland could see, and a sweet fragrance permeated the air.

Christianity in Norway” by Erling Bø

Scandinavian form of the Old English name Sunngifu, which meant “sun gift” from the Old English elements sunne “sun” and giefu “gift”. This was the name of a legendary English saint who was shipwrecked in Norway and killed by the inhabitants.
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During the fires in Bergen in 1170/71 and in 1198 the remains of Sunniva were taken from the Christchurch and sat down by Sandbru. This reportedly halted the advance of the fire and was hailed as a miracle

Around 1170 the story of Sunniva was written down in a Latin hagiographic work titled Acta sanctorum in Selio.

***

After some time, two farmers from the Firdafylke, Tord Eigileivsson and Tord Jorunsson were traveling to Trondheim. Then, one night when they had anchored up at the island Selje, they discovered a strange light over the island. It came down from the sky and assembled on one place on the beach so the glow shined in the ocean. They made it to the shore and found a scull on the beach, snow white and with a sweet smell. They did not understand this, but would like to take it with them to the Earl Hakon – Hakon Jarl. He had been killed in the meantime till they arrived in Trondheim, but in their continued travel they arrived to the king Olav Tryggvason, who now ruled in Norway. The new king and the bishop Sigurd understood that the skull was a relique. They made sure the two farmers where baptized and taught in the Christian faith, and asked people about this island Selja.

Sunniva, a Central and Important Name in Norwegian Mythology and History, Even as Religious Monument” by Stig-Arne Kristoffersen, Scotland Legends

which led me to discover the Norwegian Pentagram.

From approx. 935 CE heathen Viking Norway was introduced to a form of Christianity peculiar to a certain branch of the Gnostic Celtic Church of the British Isles, where the serpent had a ‘leading role’ and which, according to historians and archaeologists, has a pronounced Syrian and Egyptian character.

Comparing old legends and historical facts the author has unravelled a fascinating story and found a holy geometry constructed by the Celts that the famous co-author of Holy Blood, Holy Grail, Henry Lincoln has deemed “the Norwegian extension of this extraordinary business.” The clandestine plan of the Celtic Church erecting cities and monasteries as markers in such a fashion that one with the use of The Golden Section was able to construct a gigantic pentagram across Southern Norway is also revealed. The geometry is illustrated by the author in easy to follow step-by-step diagrams.

About the book [The Viking Serpent]” by Harald S. Boehlke

Take a short boat trip to SELJA Island and its ancient monastic ruins in afternoon visit. Positioned close to the Northwest tip of the pentagram, this holy island is associated with a legendary Irish princess St. Sunniva, Norway’s first female saint. Shortly after Sunniva died on the island in the tenth century, reports came of sailors sighting a human skull, suspended in a pillar of bright heavenward light! Stay once more at Nordfjord Hotel.

The Pentagram in the landscape of Southern Norway” by Jackie Queally, Celtic Trails

Synchromystic confirmation, anyone?

PENTAGRAM, the band led by the “Godfather of U.S. doom,” Brooklyn-born Bobby Liebling, performed the Hole in the Sky festival (a.k.a. Bergen Metal Fest X) on August 29, 2009 in Bergen, Norway.

Blabbermouth.net, 9-2-09

Also, regarding not even the latest snowiness, but December-January’s,

Russian scientists are reporting to Prime Minister Putin today that the high-energy beam [photo top left] fired into the upper heavens from the United States High Frequency Active Auroral Research Program (HHARP) radar facility in Ramfjordmoen, Norway this past month has resulted in a “catastrophic puncturing” of our Plant’s thermosphere thus allowing into the troposphere an “unimpeded thermal  inversion of the exosphere, which is the outermost layer of Earth’s atmosphere.

To the West’s firing of this ‘quantum’ high-energy beam we had previously reported on in our December 10, 2009 report titled “Attack On Gods ‘Heaven’ Lights Up Norwegian Sky”.

To how catastrophic for our Planet this massive thermal inversion has been Anthony Nunan, an assistant general manager for risk management at Mitsubishi Corporation in Tokyo, is reporting today that the entire Northern Hemisphere is in winter chaos, with the greatest danger from this unprecedented Global event being the destruction of billions of dollars worth of crops in a World already nearing the end of its ability to feed its self.

Norway Time Hole ‘Leak’ Plunges Northern Hemisphere into Chaos” by Sorcha Faal, 1-6-10

Sorcha’s shit is always entertaining – and I admit it’s hard to keep one’s ionospheric heaters straight at times – but, Christ, it’s EISCAT, yo, not HAARP, and certainly not HHARP (though I guess in a pinch the extra ‘H’ could stand for Haiti).

Thoughts?  Anyone?

Rainbow Star

Wednesday, November 11th, 2009

Checked Jake Kotze’s Blob today for the first time in a goodly while.

Stellar as ever.

Superstition” is a popular song written, produced, arranged, and performed by Stevie Wonder for Motown Records in 1972, when Wonder was twenty-two years old. It was included on Wonder’s Talking Book album,[1] and released as a single in many countries. It reached number one in the USA,[2] and number one on the soul singles chart. [3]. Overseas, it peaked number eleven in the UK, in February 1973.

Wikipedia

2+1+9+7+3=22

¡Feliz 11-11 y cuídate!

Have You Forgotten II Remember The Time?

Friday, September 11th, 2009
The girl whose drinks refresh the soul
then said these words to Gilgamesh:
“Remember always, mighty king,
that gods decreed the fates of all
many years ago. They alone are let
to be eternal, while we frail humans die
as you yourself must someday do.
What is best for us to do
is now to sing and dance.

Danny P. Jackson, The Epic of Gilgamesh Tablet X, Column III

Then Enkidu said to Gilgamesh,

“You who have walked beside me, steadfast

through so many dangers, remember me,

never forget what I have endured.”

Stephen Mitchell, Gilgamesh: A New English Version

163 Now when the Lady of the Gods came nigh,
164. She lifted up the priceless jewels which Anu had made according to her desire, [saying]
165. O ye gods here present, as I shall never forget the sapphire jewels of my neck
166. So shall I ever think about these days, and shall forget them nevermore!
167. Let the gods come to the offering,
168. But let not Enlil come to the offering,
16q. Because he took not thought and made the cyclone,
170. And delivered my people over to destruction.”

E.A. Wallis Budge, The Epic of Gilgamesh

Play and cuídate.

Boro, Burg, Borg, etc.

Sunday, August 16th, 2009

“Man, did you miss a big story,” he greeted Doc.

“You too, man.”

“I’m talkin about sets of fifty-foot waves that wouldn’t quit.”

“‘Fifty,’ huh.  I’m talkin about Charlie Manson gettin popped.”

They looked at each other.

“On the face of it,” Vehi Fairfield said finally, “two separate worlds, each unaware of the other.  But they always connect someplace.”

“Manson and the Surge of ‘69,” said Doc.

“I’d be very surprised if they weren’t connected,” Vehi said.

“That’s because you think everything is connected,” Sortilège said.

“‘Think’?”

Thomas Pynchon, Inherent Vice

My pal Danny (who recently moved to Troy Hill [area code 322]) told me about this delightful post by “tintin” on the David Icke forum:

Boro, Burg, Borg….

PITT and BURG

PITTSBURGH

Mayor Pittsburgh is
LUKE RAVENSTAHL

LUKE was already mayor at age 26 (!!!) of PITTSBURGH…..
What kind of farce is that ……

Anyway he comes from

TROY HILL

BRAD PITT in TROY…..

In TROY Brad
Pitt is ACHILLES.

The MAYOR from TROY HILL.
TROY and ACHILLES and the ACHILLES HEEL.
The TROY HEEL……..

Flag GLASS city Pittsburgh

NUCLEAR and BIRDS and CASTLE.
PITTSBURGH is GLASS CITY.
Philip GLASS co founded the TIBET HOUSE.
Brad Pitt in TIBET.

LUKE RAVENSTAHL. A RAVEN…..BIRD……

Ravensthal, Riefenstahl, Iceberg
Troy and ACHILLES HEEL

ACHILLES was superstrong, but his HEEL killed him…..

BRAD PITT and the ACHILLES HEEL of AMERICA.
The SYMBOLIC ICEBERG that will hit “TITANIC AMERICA”…….

RAVENSTAHL and PITTSBURGH give RAVENSBURG, GERMANY.

VOGLER is mayor
Ravensburg. BIRDCATCHER

In a town with RAVEN in it a BIRDCATCHER is Mayor…….

The ACHILLES HEEL of AMERICA……

PHILIP GLASS and the TIBET HOUSE…..

PHILIPS GLASS light bulb

GLASS and CRYSTAL…….
SWAROVSKI CRYSTAL…..
SYLVIA KRISTEL…..

Simple ICE CRYSTAL
are hexagonals

Bit like the STAR of DAVID.
KRISTALLNACHT and the STAR of DAVID…..
ICE, RIEFENSTAHL, RAVENSTAHL, PITTSBURGH, BIRDS…..
GLASS, TIBET, PITTSBURGH, TROY, PARIS, ACHILLES HEELS….

BRAD PITT and the ACHILLES HEEL……

The High HEEL
of the Devil

Think the DEVIL is AMERICA’s real ACHILLES HEEL……
They made a pact with the MASONIC DEVILS……
Especially the DEVILS that are now SLAUGHTERING Palestinians
and are determined to create WORLD WAR……

tintin, David Icke forum, 12/28/08

In this paragraph, three multiples of 11, and Adams’ sacred digits, appear after 18 (9):

Troy Hill was part of The Reserve Tract incorporated in 1833. Originally called the village of New Troy, it was settled by German immigrants who worked in the mills, tanneries, breweries and railroads that lined the Allegheny river. The migration up to Troy Hill began when a Catholic Church opened a small cemetery in 1842. By 1866 one hundred families were officially Troy Hill residents. In 1877, Troy Hill became the thirteenth ward of the City of Allegheny, Pennsylvania. Subsequently, when the City of Allegheny was annexed, Troy Hill became a neighborhood of the city of Pittsburgh.

Troy Hill – Wikipedia

Seems like yesterday (damn, seven years ago come October) I heard the Philip Glass Ensemble accompany Koyaanisqatsi at the Byham, followed by a DXM-fueled recording session at a certain yogi’s Northside apartment (in which Glass, Riesman & co. participated, I’d like to think, aetherically).  The recording, as happened occasionally in those days, was mysteriously recorded over, but I recall lyrics describing Glass (who moved to Pittsburgh in 1961 [17]) eviscerating Big Bird using box cutters and performing augury with the iconic puppet’s entrails aboard Flight 93.  Upon said entrails, if memory serves, the alleged hijackers slipped, giving Beemer & co. their mythical opportunity to “roll”.  Achilles’ heel, yeah?

You lived in Pittsburgh, right?

I lived there for two years. I was a composer-in-residence with the Pittsburgh schools. It was a program that was started by the Ford Foundation. I lived in Shadyside and on Baum Boulevard in 1961-63. I come to play now and then and still have friends there.

Were these formative years?

I was 25 and 26. They were formative in the sense that it was my first professional job writing music. I left Juilliard and went right to Pittsburgh, spent two years there, and then I went to Paris and then New York.

I would say that Pittsburgh was like my post-graduate years. I hadn’t really developed my own approach to music, but I was able to write a lot of different kinds of music for Pittsburgh public schools. I wrote probably 25 pieces. At the end of the two years, I gave a big concert of my music at the Carnegie Music Hall. It was fun.

Was this at a time before you developed your identified style?

Just a little bit. It was when I moved to Paris when the big change in my music occurred. But some of that [Pittsburgh] music was published and still is in print. I looked at it recently. It’s not so bad. It wasn’t quite juvenilia, but it wasn’t quite my current style, either.

“Naqoyqatsi” is subtitled “Life as War.” That rings in this “tempore belli,” doesn’t it?

Not only were we shocked by 9/11, as everybody was, but what shocked us was how the events had caught up with us. Don’t forget we had been working on the scenario for 10 to 12 years. We were finishing the editing when this event happened. There were images in the film that looked like we had shot them after it had happened. There are even pictures of bin Laden in the movie. Who would’ve known?

Philip Glass, Andrew Druckenbrot interview, P-G 10/25/02

Can’t recall the results of the augury, or what Glass did after that (escaped somehow, or died, and the current Glass was explained as a clone/replicant/uploaded sleeve?), or how exactly his keyboard stand factored into things, but if anybody else present that evening does recall, do tell!

Play and cuídate.

Bloomsday 09 Bibliomancy

Tuesday, June 16th, 2009

My fascination with synchronicity grows more out of Joyce than out of Jung.  Ulysses and Finnegan’s Wake are all about synchronicity, and they came out long before Jung ever wrote anything on the subject.

Robert Anton Wilson, 1988 interview

Among the volumes on occult subjects he had in his personal library in Trieste, we find many texts concerning occult matters, like Jacob Boehme’s The Signature of all Things, Emanuel Swedenborg’s Heaven and Its Wonders and Hell, two books on theosophy and discipleship by Annie Besant, a tract on the occult meaning of blood by Rudolph Steiner, a study in French on Spiritism, a volume by Merlin called The Book of Charms and Ceremonies Whereby All May Have the Opportunity of Obtaining Any Object They Desire, a translation of Plutarch’s theosophical essays, a study on Yogi philosophy and oriental occultism, a work by Giordano Bruno and a study on him, and finally several works by Blake and Yeats.23  Joyce remained interested in the occult also in his more mature years. In the Paris library we find a copy of The Occult Review (July 1923) which features essays and articles on the “Practical Qabala,” the “Akasic Records,” and “the alleged communication with Madame Blavatsky.” The Paris library hosts also other books on similar subjects, though not as many as the Trieste library.24 Such a variety of texts would suggest that Joyce’s position towards the occult
was very eclectic, as if the subject were a kind of amalgam of different traditions, all marked by the signature of secrecy. Theosophy, mysticism, magic, spiritism, and the so-called occult science in fact blend together to form a cluster of obscure erudition where Joyce eventually finds useful ideas, helpful in building up what looks literally like a cryptic system. This is consistent with the ways in which scholars use the word occult as an umbrella term.

Enrico Terrinoni, Occult Joyce: The Hidden in Ulysses

On June 16, folks gather to celebrate polymath literary trickster and all-around cantankerous goofball James Joyce and to read from Ulysses in particular.  Last year’s last-minute bibliomancy yielded up the esoteric secrets of the banana split, but I missed all the readings.  This morning I had the fun to hear the Telemachus/Martello tower episode (1) read at Bloomfield’s Crazy Mocha, and this afternoon caught the Scylla and Charybdis/National Library episode (9) at the Carnegie Library in Oakland. I did my own bibliomancy too, twice again, this time both from Ulysses.

THE FLYBILL

K. 11. post no bills.  Strictly confidential.  Dr Hy Franks.

HENRY

All is lost now.

(Virag unscrews his head in a trice and holds it under his arm.)

VIRAG’S HEAD

Quack!

(Exeunt severally.)

pg 510/523 Circe/Night Town episode (15)

K. 11. can also be read as K. K., K2/2K, and 11.11.,  but to what in Ulysses does Bloom’s talking flybill refer?  Round two answers this question and provides another instance of the 11-11/15 mirroring I first picked up [appropriately, given the adjectival use of "treacle" here] in the first Harry Potter novel.

His eyes sought answer from the river and saw a rowboat rock at anchor on the treacly swells lazily its plastered board.

Kino’s

11/-

Trousers.

Good idea that.  Wonder if he pays rent to the corporation.  How can you own water really?  It’s always flowing in a stream, never the same, which in the stream of life we trace.  Because life is a stream.  All kind of places are good for ads.  That quack doctor for the clap used to be stuck up in all the greenhouses.  Never see it now.  Strictly confidential.  Dr Hy Franks.

pg 150/153 Lestrygonians/lunch episode (8)

First let’s take the rowboat to the First Pennsylvania State Normal School at Millersville, where, in 1881, pedagogy and grammar prof (and future principal and textbook author, PA Teachers’ Association and NEA President, and 33rd degree Freemason) Eliphalet Oram Lyte saw the publication of The Franklin Square Song Collection and his most enduring contribution to human culture: the music (which he may not have actually composed, but adapted) to “Row, Row, Row Your Boat”.  Here’s another adaptation (of the lyrics) by local puppet regent King Friday XIII.

Propel, propel, propel your craft,
unforcefully down the liquid solution.
Ecstatically, ecstatically, ecstatically, ecstatically,
existence is merely an illusion.

Lyte fled this illusory existence in 1913.

Pound first heard of James Joyce through Yeats, and contacted Joyce in Trieste in 1913. Joyce was at a low point; his book of poems Chamber Music had been published six years earlier and was his only book in print, and he was in poor financial straits trying to support his wife and two children. Joyce’s difficulties in publishing his collection Dubliners were legendary; it took him almost ten years for the volume to be published without expurgation. Pound was drawn by Joyce’s travails with censorious publishers, and his support resulted in the publication of A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man as a serialization in The Egoist in 1914.

Jesse Rossa, “Joyce, Lawrence and Frost

This essay on how the magic arts of marketing are used in Ulysses offers further clues.

The most striking thing about the Kino’s advertisement, as an “answer,” is its opacity. This is not language spoken by one human voice in response to another; the words are just there, buoyant and energetic, a quotation from some mysterious and otherworldly source: Kino’s 11/-Trousers. The rowboat serves as a simple metaphor for the peculiar linguistic condition of the phrase, suggesting its quoted, artificial status and its separation from the ordinary give and take of conversation. In the characteristic mode of advertisement, this piece of text is adrift in the natural world, impenetrable and stubbornly detached. Perhaps the boat is also meant to draw our attention to the mobility of the Kino’s ad, since it does in fact wander on the treacly swells of Ulysses, reappearing twice in “Circe” as the gnomic sign “K. 11″ (15.1658, 2633), which Bloom says is “the parallax of the subsolar ecliptic of Aldebaran” (15.1656), and then again in “Ithaca,” as an example of “the modern art of advertisement . . . condensed in trilateral monoideal symbols” (17.581-82).(2)

Daniel P. Gunn, “Beware of imitations: advertisement as reflexive commentary in ‘Ulysses.’” 1996

Thanks, Daniel!

The two other references to the ad are

CHRIS CALLINAN

What is the parallax of the subsolar ecliptic of Aldebaran?

BLOOM

Pleased to hear from you, Chris.  K. II.

pg. 478/488 Circe/Nighttown episode (15)

and

What also stimulated him in his cogitations?

The financial success achieved by Ephraim Marks and Charles A. James, the former by his 1d. bazaar at 42 George’s street, South, the latter at his 6½d. shop and world’s fancy fair and waxwork exhibition at 30 Henry street, admission 2d., children 1d.; and the infinite possibilities hitherto unexplored of the modern art of advertisement if condensed in triliteral monoideal symbols, vertically of maximum visibility (divined), horizontally of maximum legibility (deciphered) and of magnetising efficacy to arrest involuntary attention, to interest, to convince, to decide.

Such as?

K. 11.  Kino’s 11/- Trousers.

House of Keys.  Alexander J. Keyes.

pg. 667/683 Ithaca/Bloom & Stephen at No. 7 Eccles St. episode (17)

Aldebaran, then.  Don Gifford and Robert J. Seidman’s Annotated Ulysses (which, remarkably, was shelved at the library on Bloomsday) tells us that,

“Subsolar ecliptic” is a phrase no longer in use in astronomy.  Callinan’s question in effect means, “What is the angle between a line from the center of the earth to Aldebaran and a line from the center of the sun to Aldebaran?”

and that,

The correct answer to Callinan’s question would have been 0.048 seconds of arc.

but also that,

in the Harvard system of classification of stars by temperature (1890), K would correctly identify Aldebaran as a somewhat cooler than average star.

In fact, Aldebaran is a K5III star (for another 11-15 link), the brightest star and “bull’s eye” of my tropical zodiac Sun sign, Taurus, and the 13th brightest star as seen from Earth.  Wikipedia’s Aldebaran page also provides a hypothetical K2

In 1997, a possible substellar companion was reported, with a mass at least 11 times that of Jupiter with an orbital period of around 2 years; however, this has not been confirmed.

and an occult 15.

This star is close enough to the ecliptic to be occulted by the moon. Such occultations occur when the moon’s ascending node is near the autumnal equinox, as will be the case around 2015.

For a running start into the last quotation, note that the Tribe of Ephraim is also linked to the bull, and not just by the ancient Egypto-Israelites.

Ephraim Wales Bull (March 4, 1806September 26, 1895) was the inventor of the Concord grape. Born in Boston, Massachusetts, Bull moved to Concord in 1836, settling with his wife on a farm next door to Amos Bronson Alcott.

In 1843, Bull began the deliberate process of breeding a grape that could thrive in the cold New England climate. By 1849, having planted 22,000 seedlings, he had created a large, sweet variety from a native species. By 1853, the grapes were for sale, but within several years, competing growers had begun raising their own crops of Concord grapes, purchased from Bull for $5 per vine. Bull saw little profit from the strain after the initial sales.

Ephraim Bull was elected to the Massachusetts House of Representatives in 1855. In 1893, after a fall, he ended up in the Concord Home for the Aged. He died in 1895. His epitaph reads, He Sowed Others Reaped.

Wikipedia

The Rev. James Flynn also died in 1895, as Joyce tells us in “The Sisters”, first of the fifteen stories in Dubliners, but let that go for the moment.  I’d next like to focus on the terms “trilateral” (as quoted by Gunn, above) and “triliteral” (as printed in my reprint of the 1961 edition [see notes on pagination, below]).  Joyce substituted the word “trilateral” for “infernal” in Finnegans Wake according to this “Genetic Exegesis“, which makes sense considering the Trilateral Commission’s infernality.  While the TLC is very goal-oriented, and there is, fortunately, only one of them, calling it or its symbol

“monoideal” (in category theory, “monoid” refers to a category with a single object) would be rather a stretch, however much it seeks a future in which the category “government” contains a single globe-girdling bureaucracy.

We also find the TLC (footnote 11) rubbing shoulders with Joyce in this Journal of Allied Health publication.  As for “triliteral”, the term applies both to three-letter word roots in Semitic languages and to the third type of Egyptian hieroglyph, which represents a three-consonant sequence (like TLC or, say, CFR in English).  The example given after the K-2/11-11 is “House of Keys.  Alexander J. Keyes.” and Bloom encounters/hallucinates Keyes (for whom he was working on an ad until his drunken editor intervened in the Aeolus episode [7]) in Nighttown.

BLOOM

(Solemnly.) You call it a festivity.  I call it a sacrament.

ALEXANDER KEYES

When will we have our own house of keys?

BLOOM

I stand for the reform of municipal morals and the plain ten commandments.  New worlds for old.  Union of all, jew, moslem and gentile.  Three acres and a cow for all children of nature.  Saloon motor hearses.  Compulsory manual labour for all.  All parks open to the public day and night.  Electric dishscrubbers.  Tuberculosis, lunacy, war and mendicancy must now cease.  General amnesty, weekly carnival, with masked licence, bonuses for all, esperanto the universal brotherhood.  No more patriotism of barspongers and dropsical impostors.  Free money, free love and a free lay church in a free lay state.

pg. 479/489 Circe/Nighttown episode (15)

I leave it as an exercise for the reader to contrast Bloom’s Utopian scenario with that of the Trilateral Commission and to answer the questions, “Which one is more ridiculous?”

One last bit of Q&A, then I’m out:

What did I discover upon exiting the Carnegie Library?

That the front tire of my bike had deflated.

What did I do about it?

I walked it from Oakland to Kraynick’s in Garfield, across Penn Avenue from a convenience store called…

K-2.

Happy Bloomsday & cuídate!

NOTES ON PAGINATION

Page numbers preceding the “/” are from the Random House 1934 edition, the first official American edition of Ulysses, which, hilariously (to me, though maybe not so much to Joyce), was set from an inaccurate 1929 pirated edition.  An accurate US edition (the one I’ve quoted from and the source [by way of Random House's June, 1990 First Vintage International Edition, which includes the 1934 page numbers parenthetically in the margins] of the page numbers following the “/”) based on the one Joyce commissioned Stuart Gilbert to edit for The Odyssey Press in 1932, wasn’t printed until 1961.