Theatre/Theater

[Lycidas at worldnet.att.net]

Paul Mackin wrote:
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> On Wed, 1 Mar 2000 Lycidas at worldnet.att.net wrote:
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> > The Second Falling
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> > The age-old questions and the fruit of that repressed tree
> > whose mortal denial brought division into the world and all
> > our woe with loss of eden....
> 
> In other words Milton is an Original Sin guy--which so should we be All.




           Of Mans First Disobedience, and the Fruit 
           Of that Forbidden Tree, whose mortal taste 
           Brought Death into the World, and all our woe, 
           With loss of EDEN, 


In GR, Man's disobedience is not a matter of (I created them
free to serve and free to fall or but for that one restraint
Lords of the world besides) transgression of the will of god
that brings death into the world and all our woe. It is the
denial of death and life, the denial of good and evil in
Man--a sin against Nature. This is the cause of all our woe.
It is the quest to be Lords of the world besides--symbolized
by the Cartel's Rocket--that divides Man ("500 years of
metaphysics and science) by making him Lord of Nature
denatured--a pornographic, imitation, a total System won
away from mother Earth.  


        
> 
> German culture is only a metaphor. The fault lies not in society but in
> our own individual Psyches.

A god can do it. But will you tell me how
a man can enter through the lyre's strings?
Our mind is split. And at the shadowed crossing
of heart-roads, there is no temple for Apollo. (SO I, III,
1-4) (GR.625-626)

till one greater Man  Restore us, and regain the blissful
Seat, 

In GR, it is not a matter of restoration or regaining
paradise. The questers seek a greater man, a greater
formula, a greater control, a greater synthesis, but just as
Adam suffers a "tragic flaw" so Man suffers from a "fatal
flaw" (GR.? Slothrop). He is caught in the prison monad, an
existential consciousness and although the blissful Seat is
all around him, he seeks it as Pudding will, as some
religious throne, but is all theatre, an S&M performance
that is directed according to a script that in all its
various representations in GR is akin to what Pointsman's
Pavlovian "ideas of the
opposite" are for:  "Helping to distinguish pleasure from
pain, light from dark,
dominance from submission
." GR.48 AND  Life from Death,
Innocence from Guilt. 


We needn't be restored by a greater man, for nothing has
been lost, we are drawn to the "holy center" by the
Messianic, eerie, mystery, of Gravity. 


 
> 
> Freud's favorite English poet was Milton.

I always though Freud's favorite poet was Sophocles.

> 
> Civilization and Its Discontents

Freud, always the agonist. 




> 
> Connect the dots.
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>                         P.



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