perspective detective

[Terrance F. Flaherty]

Paul Mackin wrote:
> 
> 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. 

No objection to anything you say above. 

But McH and W's reading puts Blicero and SS together, (I'll
check the page if you want). So why can't he be a Nazi? He
is. 

Both / AND. 

OK, the DIFFERENCE, his gnostic rebellion, his AHABism, his
Romantic with a capital R, Romantic Rebellion,
Miltonic/Satanic, Comic/Tragic & Fantasitc/Parodic
Promethianism through Romantic lenses, the DIFFERENCE is
what makes him,  because it is what makes him not  simply an
historical evil or only a  Nazi, but "THEM." 

AND Robert asked, "Who Are THEY?" 


There are critics that will argue that THEY have a name. I
disagree. 

THEY are US. It is a Condition of Modern Humanity. Otherwise
the book is parody that calls attention to itself. 

Robert said, TRP, perhaps deliberate maintains an objective
position. Look in the archives. I argued that 18 months ago. 

The problem here is that Blicero is a Nazi and he is Quite
DIFFERENT. 

To say that the similarities are not important seems silly
to me. They may need to be tabled so that the DIFFERENCE may
be seen clearly, but they cannot be dismissed so easily.
They are important. The text makes them so. 

  


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.
>