GRGR(12) Squalidozzi

Terrance F. Flaherty Lycidas at worldnet.att.net
Wed Oct 20 10:26:58 CDT 1999


So right, sorry, all these names. In any event, it doesn't
confuse I hope?? what I am attempting to say. 

"Terrance F. Flaherty" wrote:
> 
> Squalidoozi says that Imipolex G is a company Albatross,
> that there are vice-presidents whose only job is to observe
> the ritual of going out every Sunday to spit on old Jamf's
> grave. He says the indole crowd is very elitist. So LSD is,
> as Weisenburger notes, associated with the white side.
> 
> Next, Squalidozzi says, "They see themselves at the end of a
> long European dialectic, generations of blighted grain,
> ergotism, witches on broom sticks, community orgies, cantons
> lost up there in the folds of the mountain that haven't
> known an unhallucinated day in the last 500 years--keepers
> of a tradition, aristocrats--"
> 
> He says, "We can abide that openness."
> What's at stake here? Metaphysical control. The long
> european dialectic--500year. Certainly, he talking
> revolution, here where all those revolutionaries
> plotted--Joyce in literature, Einstein in science, Trotsky
> and Lenin in politics.
> Squalidozzi seems to say, that liberty is available only
> when the "western cities" are wiped out and the slate is
> wiped clean, "wiped it clean." "Opened it."
> 
> But, it seems nature, the living earth, is not quite ready
> to take her seat on the throne, for although she is prepared
> to do so, and manifest an apocalyptic celebration, the
> chemists have been reshaping our relationship to the
> elements of Nature. Imipolex G, "plasticity's" central
> cannon is that chemists are longer at the mercy of Nature.
> So LSD here, serves to allow for a chemical participation,
> by Man  in nature's ecstatic celebration, which the folk
> traditions--magic--have hitherto made manifest. Jamf is
> dead, but he is at the center of this pornographic
> relationship, where chemistry liberates the spirit through
> participation in the celebration of man free from the mercy
> of Nature. Jamf is the programmer of baby Tyrone, but "it
> seems Jamf is only dead."  "His absence surrounds him like
> an odor." Jamf is the end of metaphysics. Only dead. The
> stakes are high, far more than physical and ethical control.
> Control of Nature, and who will define ultimate reality and
> decide what the individual's relation to this reality will
> be.
> 
> "It is a fundamental paradox of Nature as we see it now that
> its universal plasticity seems suddenly to have
> hardened."    ---Pierre Teilhard De Chardin



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