39

THE LOOBY

Only loobies find excellence in these words.

It is thinkable that A is not-A; to reverse this is but to revert to the normal.

Yet by forcing the brain to accept propositions of which one set is absurdity, the other truism, a new function of brain is established.

Vague and mysterious and all indefinite are the contents of this new consciousness; yet they are somehow vital. By use they become luminous.

Unreason becomes Experience.

This lifts the leaden-footed Soul to the Experience of THAT of which Reason is the blasphemy.

But without that Experience these words are the Lies of a Looby.

Yet a Looby to thee, and a Booby to me, a Balassius Ruby to GOD, may be!

COMMENTARY (ΛΘ)

The word Looby occurs in folklore, and was supposed to the author, at the time of writing this book, which he did when he was far from any standard works of reference, to connote partly "booby", partly "lout". It would thus be a similar word to "Parsifal".

Paragraphs 2 - 6 explain the method that was given in Chapters 11 and 31. This method, however, occurs throughout the book on numerous occasions, and even in the chapter itself it i s employed in the last paragraphs.