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Well, I got up to the section, once more, about Breakthrough and the voices of the dead. And “hope it”. And “Lacey”.
I may try recording this sort of phenomenon myself.
I edited the initial post with these:
– Breakthrough by Konstantin Raudieve Latvian
– Tibetan Book of the Dead
– Colin Smythe [Wrote the preface to Breakthrough]
– The Phenomenon of Man by Teilhard De Chardin
Is there anything else I’m missing mentioned by Kinderman that is relevant?
I uploaded a TNC out-take, because I adore it so much:
Buy it now. Or tomorrow. 🙂
As regards Exorcist III out-takes: what about all that footage we saw in the E! True Hollywood Story? If those backstage footage clips exist, there is bound to be more, no…?
Also, just added another correspondence:
The following is written on page 121 of the paperback Legion novel:
A short, stout nurse waddled into the room. Her eyes had the toughness of a veteran’s. She was carrying a rubber tourniquet and a hypodermic syringe. She moved toward Dyer.
“Come to take a little blood from you, Father.”
In the unreleased trailer, the demonic voice is heard to say the same line, which was not included in the final cut of the film.
http://www.theninthconfiguration.com/blatty/correspondences/
Introduction, as in introduction to Legion…? Or am I missing something?
I only currently have the re-released paperback copy of the book with The Exorcist III poster on the cover.
Done!
http://legion.theninthconfiguration.com/film/inconsistencies/
One more correspondence added, too:
http://www.theninthconfiguration.com/blatty/correspondences/
In a scene from The Ninth Configuration, Cutshaw says the following:
“Animals are innocent. Why should they suffer? Why should children suffer? Will you tell me that? Why should any baby have to suffer, and die?”
“Why should men?”
“Oh, come on, now. Don’t try that one on me. You’ve got answers for it! Like ‘pain makes people noble.’ And ‘how could man be more than a talking, tennis-playing panda bear if it weren’t, at least, for the possibility of suffering?’ But what about animals, Hud? Does pain make turkeys noble? Why is all of creation based on dog-eat-dog, and the little fish are eaten by the big fish? Animals screaming in pain; all of creation an open wound, a fucking slaughterhouse!”
In the Legion novel, the following is written, once again mentioning the “panda” metaphor:
Kinderman wondered if it were possible for a man to be a man without pain, or at least the possibility of pain. Would he not be no more than a chess-playing panda bear? Could there be honor or courage or kindness? A god who was good could not help but intervene upon hearing the cry of one suffering child. Yet He didn’t. He looked on. But was that because man had asked him to look on? Because man had deliberately chosen the crucible in order to be able to be man, before time began and the fiery firmaments had been flung?
