Prosthetic Paradise(2) Enfetishment&MS

[David Morris]

>From: "Terrance F. Flaherty"

>[snip]  "The Rocket," maybe an alternative, perhaps the antitheses >of that 
>woman in the earth.

This makes perfect sense to me.

>[snip] My guess is that part of what "it" is, has
>a lot to do with that woman in the earth--that natural
>thing, that cycle of leaves falling from the trees, turning
>into muck and mire, getting all soggy and wet on soft days,
>stinking, blackening in the breath of winds and certainty of
>sunshine, so fecund, so fertile. so full of death and life
>and return. The limerick boys, use rockets and rocket parts
>for sexual toys. What wrong with Marvy's mother's can't they
>make it with a human? What the hell attracts them to this
>artifice? Is it simply that enfetishment satire at play
>here? Maybe? Maybe the rockets were basically duds for
>Hitler and the boys (that's the idea I got from Albert
>Speer's 'memoirs), but this "Rocket" is not a dud. Maybe it
>has won the War for someone. Maybe it has won the big prize
>(not Pointy's Nobel). Maybe it is the SOUL? Later, the
>narrator will say "the Rocket" is the Soul of the church,
>the government, the powerful Kartels, but that's only one
>statement about maybe the equivalent of Melville's white
>whale so, but here and the narrative is so typical of GR, we
>have Enzian's thoughts and conversations, dreams, warped and
>paranoid thoughts and ideas and a narrator comes in here and
>says "Enzian has grown cold...love, among these men..." And
>the irony here is so tricky and slippery, but I think that
>the narrator is laying it down pretty straight with, "the
>Rocket was an entire system won, away from the feminine
>darkness, held against the entropies of lovable but scatter
>brained Mother Nature," and look who comes into the
>narrative now, Weissman. Nature here seems to be female, not
>like those rockets Marvy's mothers are playing with and not
>like the big Rocket, "the Rocket" "the masculine
>technologies" the "entire system"  and she (Nature) is
>scatter brained, not like those mindless ones that can't
>Know Nuremberg, but random with life returning, progenitive,
>and not something the prophets, disciples, and congregations
>that worship the conscious Control of sterile determination.
>

Amen to all of the above!

DM

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