Gottfried & Blicero

[Dave Monroe]

... what's interesting to me is how said "transcendence" seems to be associated
with death, destruction, apocalypse, even (again, that final delta-t over The
Orpheus Theater at the end ...).   "Ecstasy of annihilation," indeed.  I that
quite soemthing to aspire to?  "Synthesis" seems not necessarily to have
positive connotations, either, thinking of references to plastics,
polymerization, chemistry in general.  Dale Carter has an interesting reading of
Clive Mossmoon as a sort of emergent polymerized subject or somesuch (see
"Appendix 2" to The Final Frontier).  Imagine this is somehow in the orbit of
Rilke (and maybe Goethe?  That German Romantic tradition in general, which the
Nazis did rather seem to pick up on ... but I'm anot all too up on my German
poets, so ...) as well, but, again, think there is perhaps a bit of a, if not
exactly a critique of, problematization of, such Romanticisms, dialecticisms,
whatever.  Think that launching of Gottfried, the 00000, in that Imipolex G
shroud, might be a bit of a materialization of those problematics ...

David Morris wrote:

Blicero's worldview and the nature of his goal of transcendance.  He knows he is
of Death's realm via human consciousness' inability to face the wild nature of
Life (the realm of thr Titans), but he doesn't want to remain there.  He knows
he's in a trap.  He seeks a "synthesis" of Death and Life, Victim & Destroyer.
It would seem this means the extascy of annihilation, back into a pre-conscious
state.  But how this might be brought about by the launching of Gottfried is
beyond me at the moment.  It might have something to do with Rilke...