grgr (34): "the tower" (747)

[Mark Wright AIA]

Howdy

--- Otto Sell <o.sell at telda.net> wrote:

> There is a Hand to turn the time,
> Though thy Glass today be run,
> Till the Light that hath brought the Towers low
> Find the last poor Pret'rite one . . .
> Till the Riders sleep by ev'ry road,
> All through our crippl'd Zone,
> With a face on ev'ry mountainside,
> And a Soul in ev'ry stone. . . . (760)
> 
> ....Übergangenen erreichen.
> (When the tower which represents the Elect is destroyed by
> lightning,
> the
> destroying effect is reversed to healing and now the healing light
> can reach
> the Preterite) - what TRP again has is about is the reversal of the
> binary oppositions.

Oppositions shmoppositions.  This is an extraordinary post.  Buried
within a beautiful passage I have always read with a sense of despair
(even unto a sniffle and a tear or two when I'm especially stressed
that way) bears a seed of hope under this interpretation.  What a
joyful discovery, Otto!  

How confident are you of your translation?  The word "Preterite"
seems to force a Tarot gloss into Pynchonian territory all-too-neatly.
Does it really work or are you pushing the language a bit?  Is there
anything in your source about the Tarot which would give us a clue as
to who's souls end up imprisoned in those stones?

Wonderful post, Otto.
Mark


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