Charlotte Iserbyt: Societies Secrets

[Jan Klimkowski]

After Jan's comment yesterday, I ddi a quick Google on "Brussell Sprouts", grasped the concept, and printed a speech given at a Rotary club (?!) by one Virginia McCullough to be read when I got back. (Virginia is Mae's archivist? Do I have that right?) (McCullough herself has a bit of notoriety for dogging Rachel Begley from discussion board to discussion board.)

The Virginia McCullough "Brussell Sprouts" speech can be read here.

I read it. And I got more of an understanding about a woman who was, in my own description, a "hoarder" of files, articles, books, minutiae, etc.

So I gather that that was her strength, the collection part, (although her indexing of the 22 volumes of the Warren Commission was a major contribution), but I suppose that her weakness was in the fact that her analysis was less formidable or detailed or deep.

Mae Brussell, daughter of the head rabbi of LA, is like a gnostic seer out of a Borges story.

She collects scraps, fragments, words, names, buried deep inside newspapers and magazines and weighty leather tomes and glossy throwaway trash..... she makes discoveries which pulse and resonate and shed light on worldly matters..... spilling secrets which make the geopoliticians shiver and shudder..... her voice droning into the ethereal shadows, lingering like mist.... Mae's kabbalistic visions tap tap tapping into the collective unconscious.....

Mae's insights need to be constantly tested against new facts, fresh revelations.

A considerable number continue to resonate, indeed some pulse with increased power.

I would certainly not categorize Mae Brussell's analysis as "less formidable or detailed or deep" than that of other researchers.

Rather I always consider it on its own ontological terms.

Is that accurate? And does that translate or apply equally to Constantine?

Alex has done much fine work, especially given what he describes as his "harrassment".