Chasing ... Cutting

[Terrance Flaherty]

Mark Wright AIA wrote:
> 
> Howdy
> 
> I read Pirate's Dream as one incorporating material from other German
> sources than the Jews bound for and in the camps.  I have always been
> struck by the similarity of the "evacuees ... taken in lots" (lots of
> meaning in those words alone) and the elevator imagery to several
> sequences in the 1920's German film "Metropolis," made by Lang at UFA.

Right on, of course, who mentioned that backward gun-shot?,
that count-down in reverse, the second industrial
revolution's fall, the rise of the atomic age and the count
down is Lang's. The city is as important to GR as it is in
say,  Blake and Rilke. Lang, Metropolis, UFA, is the source,
yes. That's why he is referenced at the end, in the theatER,
the ICBM's bang-big screaming. The centripital/centrefugal
history that some one hinted at is an important theme,
although I don't think the hints were very helpful, not
those on Gnostic sparks or ethnic jokes, at least I can't
figure any of it, never good with figures, ha, ha, but
anyway,  Greta is Bliceo to Katje, V of course,
"Anti-Dietrich", again this is confirmed by chapter 9 of V.
With Greta the main source is Gershom Scholem, and I think
it was Mark that sent me back to Graves a few months back. 

Greta impersonates and represents several mythological &
religious figures (white woman).  She also maps onto other
female characters, including Katje. Note the windmill
silhouettes GR.462

"I doubt she had a father. It was parthenogenesis, she's
pure Marghertia, if pure is the word I want." GR.462


OED 2nd edition

Parthenogenesis:

parthenogenesis pa:rþeno,d3e.nesis. Biol. [f. Gr. parqeno-j
virgin + genesij origin, birth, nativity, genesis. ]
Reproduction without concourse of opposite sexes or union of
sexual elements. Now usually restricted to reproduction by
the development of a single sexual cell (as an ovum or
ovule) without fertilization by union with one of the
opposite sex (which occurs, normally or occasionally, in
certain insects and other invertebrates, and in rare
instances in plants); formerly used more widely to include
asexual reproduction, as by fission or budding (cf.
agamogenesis). 


Parthenogenesis is the form of procreation attributed to the
Shekinah 

>From Ware's hyper-art: 
Erdmann, Margherita (Greta)
364; [German: "erd" = "earth, soil"] German film actress;
mother of
Bianca; star of von Göll's Alpdrucken; worked for von Göll
in vaguely
pornographic horror movies; the "Anti-Dietrich" 394; real
name not
"Erdmann" 395; in Berlin with Slothrop, 433; feels abandoned
by
Slothrop when he returns, 443; married to Thanatz, 461;
murdering
Jewish children, 477-78; aka Gretel, 482; Weisse Sandwüste
von
Neumexiko ("White Sand Desert of New Mexico"--perhaps a
reference to nuclear testing in New Mexico) 482; with Max
Schlepzig
in Jugend Herauf! ("Youth Arise!"), 483; with Blicero and
Thanatz on
the Heath