Other Sides

[LARSSON at VAX1.Mankato.MSUS.EDU]

Heikki teaches us:
"_GR_'s stupefying "other side" is not "heaven" or "hell". This limbo-like
sphere is not purgatorial like Catholics would like to have it. On the
other hand, in their Manicheanism, Protestants wanted to deny the
existence of intermediary spheres altogether; ghosts were demons to them.
(Isn't the novel's unsettling division between "this side" and "the other
side" crucial to its *general economy* (a la Bataille), making its
dialectic appropriations impossible? The irreducible manifestations of
the other side pointing, among other things, to inutilizable wastes,
multiple excesses, and supplementary middle voices?)"

That "other side" is a new twist on Eliot's 'Death's other Kingdom,' which
itself adapts Dante (like that Pope who was in Hell *before* his body
died!).  So where does that leave Lyle Bland?
 
But we'll get to that someday in the GRGR, I hope.
 
Don Larsson, Mankato State U(MN)