Blicero

[Paul Mackin]

Terrance:
> what I don't get based on this argument of checking out of this cycle is why 
> does he send Gottfried up in the Rocket instead of himself--what, the 
> mystic's too chubby for cosmic enlightenment.
> And what about the claims of finding good ole Blic in the boardrooms of the 
> present--he's a survivor, hooked on the experiences of, say Gottfried during 
> that final flight of 00000--Interesting parallel with all the other themes 
> regarding fetishization. He gets a thrill over death, but someone else's 
> looks like to me.
> Not that he isn't one of the most interesting literary characters.

Seems to me it's simply the Christian myth in disguise. Blicero and
Gottried are the Holy Duality, Father and Son, Father sending Son as a
sacrifice, doing it with inpunity because they are One God in Two Divine
Persons.

Wild stuff but that's what we're paying our money for.

rj: 
> It is not death -- murder, suicide, extinction, genocide etc -- but
> transcendence which Blicero seeks through and for Gottfried: "a promise,

Think of it as a dream sequence. Dreams often don't make literal sense. We
don't expect them to. Something beyond the literal is being conveyed. Some
kind of perverted upside down wish fulfillment we cannot quite decipher.
But quite beautiful. 

The symbolism is more question than answer.

				P.