Chasing ... Cutting

[Dave Monroe]

... but "retreat," "stand," "toward," the previously noted "destiny," anyone hear
a little of the Heideggerian (alongside the Hitlerian Otto noted in that
"destiny") in any of this?  Esp. given themes of nature, technology, power here
... that "famine" thing, as well, tres apocalyptique, non?  Famine, pestilence
(that "virus," that "infection"), war, death, Blicero's four, four, four horsemen
in one ... and that canker, cancer, Cancer, the "claws of [Leni's] sign," that
"found" crab, Broderick's son's (i.e., Tyrone's) clawlike appendages (what was
that phrase?), Slothrop "crabwalks" somewhere, as I recall (as Die Springer is a
chess knight and a laufer is a bishop, is such "crabwalking" the motion of a rook,
a castle, a Tower?  Although the King, the Queen, can move sideways, horizontally
as well, and keep in mind the horizontal vs. the vertical here ...) , that
Happyville guide ... Heidegger, the Four Horsemen of the Apocalypse, crabs, let me
know ...

Terrance Flaherty wrote:

> > The passage at 666.15 describes not Blicero the man, but Blicero "the name",
> > the idea, the myth. It is only "as if" the name is "carrying on the man's
> > retreat for him, past the last stand"
>
>
> > "Like a cankered root he is changing, growing toward



> winter, growing whiter,
> > toward the idleness and the famine."
> >
> > canker n. 3, an open wound in the stem of a tree or shrub, caused by injury
> > or parasites (Collins)
>
> No, obviously that not it.
> >
> > Seasonal change has come. He/it is "changing, growing toward winter", but
> > has not caused winter; he/it is not the bringer of "the idleness and the
> > famine".
> >
> > Far enough?
>
> No, this is lame obfuscation on your part and I think you
> know it.
>
> >
> > Blicero is the *absent*, or symbolic, authority figure in the prisoners'
> > camp (667.9). His palpable presence across the ""interface"" of life and
> > 'not-life' scares Thanatz shitless (668.7).
>
> Yes, the interface is what?
>
> >
> > > How do you account for his reading of Rilke? It's entwined
> > > as an integral element of his oven game, the Oven State,
> > > and must be accounted for.
> >
> > He read Rilke. He read it to his lover, Enzian, in Sudwest: taught him the
> > language, the culture.
>
> Why will you admit to all sorts of complexity but deny that
> TRP's use of Rilke in GR is very complicated. It's a
> critical part of the text you refuse to account for. Why?
>
> >
> > Blicero is the character most venerated in the narrative.