James Joyce Ulysses and UFO lore

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Virtually all the literary periodicals are reminiscing about James Joyce’s Ulysses, which is in the midst of its 100 year anniversary.
 
The gist of the articles is about the profound revelations of life and reality and, of course, the superb wordplay.
 
I have my clutch of Joycean splendors but could never get through a full reading of the great work: it bores the hell out of me.

The shroud of “Home Rule” for Ireland – despite my family’s British heritage – is a topic along with the great potato famine(s) that does not clutch my mind. It’s a non-getter for me, and for most persons I know, academics included.
 
The characters are loathsome and the patina of their lives pathetically uninteresting.
 
(The same can be said for the magnificent volumes of Marcel Proust’s À la recherche du temps perdu [which I favor over the numbskullian In search of Lost Time], another set that eludes my interest and time.)

Such wondrous literary works, highlights of humanity's lofty cul- ture, for me, miss the point of existence. They dwell on the plati- tudes of refined or adventurous waywardness that afflicts those who think they are enjoying the good life.
 
How does this impact the UFO matter?
 
Most books and copy about the mysterious phenomenon go astray in ways not unlike that found in the works chagrinned above.
 
The peripheral aspects of ufological interest are often (always?) sidelined by items outside the phenomenon’s significance: where a UFO was seen, a blurry photograph of one, allegedly, the confer- ences invoked to address the issue of UFOs but only cement the social factors of participants, and so on.
 
UFO lore – media copy, blog posts, web pages, books – all are drenched in slavish asides that detract from the enigma itself.
 
No one addresses the phenomenon. It lies outside rumination by those discussing it, like the inane conversations of Joyce’s Leopold Bloom or Proust’s Charles Swann supposedly reflecting on the loss of time and lack of meaning in the world.

Yes, the books can be edifying – for those immersed in the world who want to make life the meaning of all things.
 
But one will find more rapture, perhaps, in such volumes as these (which I picture for a few of you more open to a wider reality than the mundane one evoked by Joyce and Proust, and most in the UFO community I’m familiar with):

There, you have it. I can feel a few persons who sneak in here for a read, loathing my dismissal of such great literature.
 
But there it is…

(Books pictured are from my personal library)
 
RR

Ghost Riders in the Sky

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A story in the book (reviewed earlier here) pictured – Chapter 25 The UFOs That Lived (Battle Moutain, Nevada), 1925, Page 139 ff. – tells readers that Flying Saucer editor, Ray Palmer received, in the late 1950s, an account of a 1925 encounter with a strange object.
 
The author of the letter, Don Wood, Jr. told how he and three aviators, flying WW I monoplanes over the Nevada desert landed on Flat Mesa to explore the “flat place.” [Page 140]
 
“While walking about the top of this place, we noticed something coming in for a landing. It was about eight feet across and was….[here’s the page itself, which you read, verbatim]:

[article ending] Universe by Brad Steiger and John White published in 1975. Some reaearchers believe that the creatures seen on Flat Mesa in 1925 were a strange form of life that lives in the Earth’s atmosphere and rarely descends to our planet's service.

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Some researchers feel that this story would be more believable if it had been reported closer in time to when it actually happened, instead of 34 years later. [Page 142]
 
That story allows me to remind you that the suggestion UFOs are living entities has been offered by a few UFO enthusiasts over the years and is one that might be considered appropriate for the AATIP things imaged and chased by Navy pilots.

The maneuvers and behavior that some readers here see as ET originated might just be the movements of living creatures with bodies that could be enlarged micro-organisms. Organisms with evolved intelligence. 
 
Bacteria:

Just a thought ...
 
RR

Google notes UFO World Day [7/2] , Roswell, and UFO sightings

Happy, Grand 4th of July to my U.S. pals ....