Melaine & Morality and gospels and stuff...

[Terrance F. Flaherty]

 Melaine is a bit like our Katje, she is different though,
Katje has an eye for the camera and Melaine has an eye for
the mirror. Remember that mirrors are as prominent in V. as
the camera or film is in GR and that Melaine is
narcissistically self-absorbed by her own sexuality. She
regards herself as an object to be adorned and viewed and
the transvestism that she practices with V. is not between
sexes, but between the quick and the dead; human and fetish.
Remember that Mondaugen enters mirror-time in the South-West
Protectorate and that Weisman's interpretation of the
sferics during Mandaugen's scurvy illness is mirrored and
voyeuristic.


Tourism thus is supranational, like the Catholic Church, and
perhaps the most absolute communion we know on earth: for be
its members American, German, Italian, whatever, the Tour
Eiffel, Pyramids, and Campanile all evoke identical
responses from them; their Bible is clearly written and does
not admit of private interpretation; the y share the same
landscapes, suffer the same inconveniences; live by the same
pellucid time-scale. They are the Streets own....

The lady V., one of them for so long, now suddenly found
herself excommunicated: bounced unceremoniously into the
null-time of human love....Melaine....time--for a
while--ceased...

V. to Porcepic to Stencil

His description of them is a well-composed and ageless
still-life of love at one of its many extremes: V. on the
pouf, watching Melaine on the bed; Melaine watching herself
in the mirror; the mirror image perhaps contemplating V.
from time to time. No movement but a minimum friction. And
yet one solution to a most ancient paradox of love:
simultaneous sovereignty yet a fusing-together. Dominance
and submissiveness didn't apply; the pattern of three was
symbiotic and mutual. V. needed her fetish, Melaine a
mirror, temporary peace, another to watch her have pleasure.
For such is the self-love of the young that a social aspect
enters in: an adolescent girl whose existence is so visual
observes in a mirror her double; the double becomes a
voyeur. Frustration at not being able to fragment herself
into an audience of enough only adds to her sexual
excitement. She needs, it seems, a real voyeur to complete
the illusion that her reflections are, in fact, the
audience...comes consummation...They are she.

As for V., she recognized--perhaps aware of her own
progression toward inanimateness--the fetish of Melanie and
the fetish of herself to be one...As all inanimate
objects...Roamantacism since the Middle Ages: "the act of
love and the act of love are one...quick and dead; human and
fetish...conspiracy leveled against the animate
world...Kingdom of Death...


  

V..441-443HPC.1999

Chapter 14 V. V. in love

Serius, very, very Serius, 

PS anyone read a history of god by karen armstrong?

Fishing for a fine kettle of fish and other figurative
phrases to mount on my wall