DT the linguist

[Terrance F. Flaherty]

Mark Wright AIA wrote:
> 
> --- "Terrance F. Flaherty" <Lycidas at worldnet.att.net> wrote:
> (frag)
> > The game is fixed, "the odds belong to the past,"
> > but not to Eden and A&E and the forbidden fruit,  but to the
> > Forbidden Wing, where control is the original sin and god
> > has has juice running down his chin.
> 
> Howdy TF et al,
> 
> Do you refer to Burgess' fictional fragmentary essay "A Clockwork
> Orange" embedded in "A Clockwork Orange" in which Man, as a creature
> capable of moral choice, through good works ripens to sweetness until
> he "...oozes juicily, at the last, upon the lips of God."  Or beyond
> the Burgess I hear to another source?  I've often (well, more than
> once...) wondered what his allusion might be.  Something in Shakespeare
> maybe?
> 



The attempt to impose upon man, a creature of growth and
capable of sweetness, to ooze juicily at the last round the
bearded lips of God, to attempt to impose, I say, laws and
conditions appropriate to a mechanical creation, against
this I raise my swordpen. 

What does God want? Does God want goodness or the choice of
goodness? Is a man who chooses the bad perhaps in some way
better than a man who has the good imposed upon him? 

Impose upon MAN, the big problem, FREE WILL and the
forbidden, THE Fall, how to deal with this?  Milton's
fortunate fall? Or the Control of Man of others? Is god 
gravity, pulling Man down and pulling rockets on his head?
In slothrop's game, the preterite drink, god is the house,
the object to lose. In the big game, god doesn't deal, he
has professional dealers, and THEY have marked cards, fixed
WHEELS, the odds belong to the past. To the forbidden wing,
where CONTROL is total and absolute. 


In terms of Shakespeare in Clockwork, I don't know, but when
I keep reading brother, brother, I think Edmund, the bastard
brother in Lear. 

TF