An Epic Correspondence

Honestly, my email, while genuine, was a sort of "bait" to see what response I would get. And I am very pleased and even excited that you replied! I had expected to be ignored really. It is hard to describe, but I am struck with some degree of fascination about -anonymous- as a fountainhead of esoteric knowledge, something I had thought long passed with the deaths of people such as Lovecraft and Crowley. I find that certain areas of intellectual pursuit are lonely and often without the encouragement or support of peer, thus I question myself and my pursuits regularly. When one studies physics he is left without doubt as to the validity of his endeavours, due to the bolstering presence of fellow pursuers and professors and the availability of credible and conspicuous pedagogical material. When one studies Egyptian Taro however, the aforementioned boons of the physicist are no longer present. Professorial guidance is scarce, capricious or absent while source material is sometimes occluded and ambiguous. The secrets of physics did not trickle into our current century through a myriad of often secretive and obscure hands, encrypted and deciphered many times all the while. I suppose what concerns me the most and immediately is my inability to decide whether or not I am studying the fantastic ramblings of an over-imaginative person or veritable script containing antediluvian wisdom.