GRGR (15): Good & Evil (was Enzian...)

[Terrance F. Flaherty]

Lorentzen / Nicklaus wrote:

> 
>   But their evil is different. Pointy's COLD evil is more evil than Weissmann's
>   HOT one. Blicero's passion makes him more human than Pointsman. Furthermore,
>   I dare to doubt that you can really identify Weissmann's dream as "the Nazi
>   dream". Are his primary concerns really "ethnic cleanness" & the German world
>   domination? I'm not quite convinced of that. Can you give concrete passages?
> 
>                                                  KFL


Are his primary concerns really "ethnic cleanness" & the
German world
domination? 

NO, this is not what I mean at all. I'm talking about his
Flame--the Oven--The Rocket. His desire to transform earth
into a Kingdom of Death, to transform life and death and the
natural cycle through domination with artifice and stasis.   

"As  the Rocket grows towards its working shape and
fullness, so does he [Enzian] evolve, himself, into a new
configuration
What Enzian wants to create will have no
history. It will never need a design change. Time, as time
is known to other nations, will wither away inside this new
one. The people will fill the Center again, the Center
without time, the journey without hysterisis, where every
departure is a return to the same place, the only place
. He
has thus himself found a strange reapproachment with the
Empty Ones: in particular with Josef Ombindi of Hanover. The
Eternal Center can easily be seen as the Final Zero. Names
and methods vary but the movement towards stillness is the
same. "   GR.318-319

It embraces all the Deviations in one single
act---Homosexuality, Sadism, masochism, Onanism,
Necrophilia, bestiality, pedophila, lesbianism, coprophilia
and urolagnia, fetishism. 

"Enzian is, in some way, being  SOLD ON SUICIDE
" GR.320

But the stillness is NOT the same. This stillness is part of
the original Herero perception that gave a common locus of
origin to both creation and death. Sort of like  the Garden
of Eden. One can not go there, for this would betray the
sacred role of preterition in the name of the Center without
time. Pynchon layers this Zero, this gnostic Zero, compiling
myths, Kabalistic myths, Herero myth, and so on and in the
current GRGR discussion Pynchon gives the gnostic Zero
dramatic immediacy, we go into tunnels of the Mittlewerke,
where Dora's prisoners were emptied of all human dignity,
there in that terrible excavation that emptied the animated
soul of Nature and assembled the inanimate horror of the
Rocket. 

"All right. But Etzel Olsch's genius was to fatally
receptive to imagery associated with the Rocket
.the double
integral has a different meaning
.The Rocket was on its own.
That is one meaning of the shape of the tunnels down here in
the Mittelwerke. Another may be the ancient rune that stands
for the yew tree, or death. The double integral stood in
Etzel Olsch's subconscious for the method of finding hidden
centers, inertias unknown
."     GR.301-302

The Brennschluss point, the anti-life symbols brought
together here, using a bit of poetic license to bend the yew
tree and the ancient rune, the Nazi architecture to the
Zero, the hidden centers, the inertias unknown. 
"And  what is the specific shape whose center of gravity is
the Brennschluss Point?" 

The Parabola.  

TBC