GRGR(18): Finding Lisaura

[Lycidas at worldnet.att.net]

Lorentzen / Nicklaus wrote:
> 
> Lycidas at worldnet.att.net schrieb:
> 
> > Where is the loving sexual relationship in this novel?
> 
>   gottfried & weissmann. can't you f e e l their glowing tenderness for each
>   other?!

NOT a loving sexual relationship, unless you are going to
argue that the novel celebrates impotence and a cumming
together in DEATH--White sperm into Black feces. 



> 
> > The characters seek
> > to unite not with each other, but with some absolute.
> 
>   terrance, why so undialectical here?! it's not necessarily a question of
>   either/or.

OH yes it is! I'm not my being undialectical, but the
characters in GR are.   What unites master and slave in GR
is an absolute--yes they seek  an absolute, a perversion of
some religious absolute, like Pudding eating the body and
blood of Katje or Blicero's sodomizing of Gottfried and
sacrificing his "SON."   What is desired is an absolute.
Doesn't the reader want absolutes? Doesn't the author--with
his narrators mock the readers desire for absolutes, don't
the characters all want absolutes in some way? Sure, but
absolutes lead to death in this novel. 




> 
>   avatar adi da: "sex is rooted in the heart, or the emotional character.
>   sexual activity is either a direct expression of love (or inherent, primary,
>   and freely radiant heart-feeling) or the dramatization of emotional
>   limitations through physical displays. and full sexual expression requires a
>   full and free heart, awakened to the constantly baptizing spirit-presence of
>   the by grace revealed divine person. then sexual activity (or, really,
>   emotional-sexual activity) incarnates free heart-feeling and spiritual
>   energy".
> 
>                                                                 kfl