GRGR(5) Katje and the Nazis

[Mark Wright AIA]

Howdy...

Taking up an extraordinarily small point:

--- Michael Perez <studiovheissu at yahoo.com> wrote:
> The "Ss" is coincidental, IMHO, and does not refer to the
> Schutsstaffeln, it is merely descriptive.

I am surprised (even pleased) that one of us allows something,
anything, in GR to be "merely descriptive".  However, I don't believe
this detail is merely descriptive.  It is in the context of a dream
crammed with interlaced meanings and referents, all of them doubled,
and then doubled again.  This is a wonderful instance in fact.  A
pulley with spokes shaped like "Ss" (circle with Ss nested inside) is

a) Descriptive.  There are such pulleys, which appealed to the
decorative tastes of 19th cent engineers.  Today our tastes have
changed, but our machines are every bit as decorative.

b) Reference to SS, clear as a bell.  Clear as an azure sky of deepest
summer.

c) Reference to OSS, the Office of Strategic Services, which is
referred to directly later in GR (where I can't recall just now). This
is more obscure, but the linkage is intended, I think, to imply some
possible equivalence between the two organizations.  CIA = american
fascist pigs; very 60's.

d) Countering the reading of moral equivalence in c above, would be the
reading of the nested Ss within a circle as Yin/Yang, which implies SS
and OSS as opposites in balance in a universal order.  (This is a more
appropriate reading IMO)

Here endeth the reading.  I love this stuff.... 

Mark
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