GRGR(11): More on Webley
Terrance F. Flaherty
Lycidas at worldnet.att.net
Tue Oct 5 21:26:51 CDT 1999
Right, thanks, and Weisemburger identifies the source of
"the shining mother and last love" as Grimm, but what of the
Bride: "they-they were proclaiming you as their bride...."
to whom the regiment sings hymns? Is this kabbalah or Grimm?
I thought it some reference inverted and twisted around
christ and the church and SJD's Revelations, but it doesn't
work out. I thought this because of the knowledge of death
curse (230).
TF
Cjhurtt6 at aol.com wrote:
>
> In a message dated 10/5/99 4:40:52 PM Pacific Daylight Time,
> Lycidas at worldnet.att.net writes:
>
> <<
> We follow Pointy on one level. Pointy is in one sense
> Richard III--a dog in need of money and a Lab/WAR. >>
> and a labrador. sorry couldn't help it.
>
> << The rituals in the seventh
> cell (not sure of the allusion here, revelations?) involves
> eating shit and golden cocktails and "when the [cane] cums
> down." He eats the shit of the Mistress of Death--a ritual
> of oneness with his fallen comrades. He drinks the piss in
> remembrance of Passchendael. He is caned in the S/M ritual
> to purify. >>
> according to weisenburger this is a "satirical inversion of the Kabbalistic
> acsent to the Merkabah." each of the seven cells are paradies of the seven
> antechambers one must pass through.
> 1. hasid devotion white visitation the needle/addiction
> 2. tahore pure w.v. severin and depravity
> 3.yashar sincerity w.v. scientific objectivity
> 4.tanim being wholly with god w.v. a skull in a drawer.
> and so forth. until he is standing in servility before domina nocturna
> instead of erect before God.
> the above is paraphrased(hopefully clearly) from weisenburgers gr companion.
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