GRGR Finale: launching the 00000

[Terrance]

The Rocket is the ABSOLUTE and it symbolizes the various
absolutes in the novel. These include, the cross, a mandala,
a swastika, the tree of life, the holy text, the WORD,
Christ, the deliverer of the Jews, the baby Jesus, the
crucified Jesus, the Christian martyrs, the followers of
Jesus. The rocket promises salvation to those that believe
or long to transcend this Earth  (man's transcendental
aspiration is symbolized sexually by sadomasochistic
homosexual intercourse in GR).  Of course this is all a lie.
Not the Christian lie of good and evil as has been
suggested, but the postmodern secular lie that has co-opted
all of the absolutes and yes even the non-binary or
dialecticals in flux  (most importantly the eschatological
absolutes) of not only Christianity but all the other
systems of belief in the novel. The Christian or we could
say biblical examples are the obvious ones (Isaac and Jesus
and so on), but they are by no means the key or the lie we
can attribute the rocket and its forces of cataclysmic
annihilations to. Oh NO! It is a "perpetual struggle" and it
has been and ever shall be world with or without end and you
know the rest from your readings in Freud
.

But the rocket has to be many things
Gnostics (this is
Weissmann/Blicero and Gottfried/Enzian btw)
.727

The rocket is of course all those things Doug M has been
posting, the "rocket cartel." And it is the German peacock
that arrogant Faustian drive he is at the Mercy of. Oh pity
this poor harassed human soul, the German, God's most
crippled creature. He is Enzian's earlier self,  when he was
both a fool and a cripple and in "love" with the white
charismatic anit-Rilke "hero." Oh pit him, for he is what we
are, souls under the Karmic hammer, victims and victimizers,
vindictive avengers and guilty. 

sorry, i only snip to save bandwidth: 

s~Z wrote:
> 
> >>>But it occurs to me that he might also be thought of as the first
> astronaut, can't he?<<<
> 
> Well, no.
> 
>      And it came to pass, as they still went on,
>      and talked, that, behold, there appeared a
>      chariot of fire, and horses of fire, and parted
>      them both asunder; and Elijah went up by
>      a whirlwind into heaven.
> 
>                                        (2 Kings 2:11)
> 
>      And when he had spoken these things, while
>      they beheld, he was taken up; and a cloud
>      received him out of their sight. And while they
>      looked stedfastly toward heaven as he went up,
>      behold, two men stood by them in white apparel;
>      Which also said, Ye men of Galilee, why stand
>      ye gazing up into heaven? this same Jesus, which
>      is taken up from you into heaven, shall so come
>      in like manner as ye have seen him go into heaven.
> 
>                                        (Acts 1: 9-11)