perspective detective

[Paul Mackin]

Apropos of Dave's mention of McHoul and Wills' material typonomy
formulation it seems easy enough to apply it to the discussion of recent
days.

The thing McH and W look for in GR is the presence of some material
physical substance (either a person or thing) that somehow can be seen to
override an original, conventional, necessarily rather abstract
dualism or binary opposition.

A basic binary opposition of GR might be stated as:

Life vs Death
Denial of death vs embracing death in all its horror and pain
Self preservation instinct vs suicide compulsion
Love of humanity vs hatred of what mankind is doomed to be (or has become)

The new right hand opposition term which P has created must clearly be
seen as Weissmann/Blicero. Crazy mythic saint (ask Enzian) and
indisputable devil all in one--all in that doubly symbolic
Whiteness.  Blicero would LIKE to "solve" his favorite poet. It's been
kind of a regular old obsession with him. And he has at hand the latest
state of the art technology (along with his low tech penis to guide
him). But there of is NO solution--merely a lot of exciting dramatic
action, not without a comic element, about making his lover--the thing he
most loves--both dead as a doornail and at the same time the
first man in space. It is all we might want and expect by way of a
respectful nod to Rilke and about as close as can be gotten to a
pleasing yet not so pleasing alternative to any remaining hangup we might
still entertain with regard to "solutions." We can't help loving it. In
sum,  Blicero is not a Nazi (as Rob has so correctly pointed out) but
something quite DIFFERENT. No need of course to deny B might
sport or have sported an SS or the  SIMILARITIES B might
have with the Nazis or Hitler. But the similarity if NOT what's
important. What's  important is the DIFFERENCE (or possibly if we're so
inclined the differance).

			P.