Atlantis and Gondwanaland

David Stockhoff · 03 Jan 2011, 13:24 · from 2011-January.txt.gz

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From: dstockhoff at verizon.net (David Stockhoff)
Date: Mon, 03 Jan 2011 08:24:36 -0500
Subject: (urth) Atlantis and Gondwanaland
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There are a few thoughts that I had on reading FHOC and I have not moved 
forward much from them:

(1) The Shadow Children preceded us on Earth, having left Earth before 
we evolved. We may be their descendants.

(2) #1, but as an in-joke.

(3) The possibility of #1 is meant to make us imagine sharing a planet 
with a closely-related species, or fairies, or whatever, i.e., induce a 
sort of disorienting paranoia about our own identity as humans. (As you 
suggest for David et al.)

(4) He doesn't know what he's talking about. He's just repeating 
myths---literary ones that are becoming "real" ones. Perhaps he got them 
from reading human minds or something.

(5) All these are meant to make us question what we think we know.

On 1/2/2011 10:51 PM, Lee Berman wrote:
>
> Perusing the text to respond to Gerry's post, I found an interesting section. During
> their lessons, David is peeking at "Polyphemus, The Cyclops and Odysseus". This story
> involves blinding the giant and tricking him by pretending Odysseus' name is "Noman".
> Sort of a stretch but I wonder if this could hint that all involved (even Dr. Veil)
> are blind to the fact that they are not men. If not that, it must connote something.
>
> Anyway, the main thing is that during this lesson, Number Five says he glosses upon
> "the Etruscans, Atlantis, and the tenacity and expansionist tendencies of a
> hypothetical technological culture occupying Gondwanaland".
>
>
> As has been discussed a couple times in the past year, the Old Wise One Shadow Child
> provides the rather impossible list of possible home nations on earth as, "Atlantis or Mu--
> or Gondwanaland, Africa, Poictesme, or The Country Of Friends."
>
>
> What might be the connection between these two references? 		 	   		
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