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► UR2 Appendix 27: (For Session 739) Grunaargh Gutenberg movable beefy Sue
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(Within the week Sue came through with the following paper, offered in a slightly abridged form and with a few annotations:)

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“My heavyset friend was filled with the thrill of knowing that now words would spread faster. This is hard to specify, but he had the same feeling I have now about newspapers — the daily spreading out of ideas, and the kind of tremendous power behind that ability … I can see that corner of his shop/work area clearly in a half-light, illuminated by a candle in an enclosed mesh lantern sitting on a tabletop. This man had several apprentices, and he was a real artisan, putting ideas across in the form of movable type. I know that Gutenberg is credited with this invention, and probably rightly so; but I also feel this as one of those discoveries that appeared in several places at once, and that my beefy fellow’s shop was in the general vicinity of Gutenberg’s — in Germany? I can’t recall. This idea was ‘shared’ in many places at once, then.6

► UR2 Section 6: Session 739 February 24, 1975 hill house trees neighborhood fireplace
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[...] The mixture of families of consciousness allows you also to take a close look at the ways in which these tendencies merge to form communities. [...]

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[...] You cannot put a leash on them and walk them around the block, yet trees form a protective barrier about, say, a home or a neighborhood. [...]

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[...] Obvious, but intriguing: We’ll be joining the present residents of the hill neighborhood in forming a newer psychic and psychological entity than the one that existed before we arrived. [...]