GRGR(12) Squalidozzi
Terrance F. Flaherty
Lycidas at worldnet.att.net
Wed Oct 20 10:02:46 CDT 1999
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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