perspective detective
Terrance F. Flaherty
lycidas2 at earthlink.net
Sun Sep 24 20:09:29 CDT 2000
Paul Mackin wrote:
I'm going to skip right over one approach--that S of course
represents the domination of the U.S. in the world--a very
uninteresting observation I feel.
Me too, "THE AMERICAN REQUIREMENT." Guilty, a parody of
Orpheus, He has lost his Eurydice [GR.472]. He doesn't to
fail to bring her back, no, where would be the parody in
that Quest? The Parody has to do with LOSS. He lost her. And
he is responsible.
Oh no, I'm gonna contradict myself here Paul (what else is
new?), WE lost her. Oh we are to feel the Guilt too, US
American boys, we lost her. First, and Rilke's most
beautiful statement about art and objects, I'll dig it out,
WE, and the YOU of GR is male, I'm convinced, is He an
AMERICAN WHITE BOY, a racist bigot like me? Well YOU decide,
OK? But anyway we loved that Bianca stuff, and we lost her
too, our sexual object, ourt fetish, that little Lollipop
singing kid, we Lost her. But THEY controlled & monitored
us right? Well, our instincts, were they instinct, our
sexual desires once satisfied, we Lost her. SHe is Bianca
and she is Katje too. Oh yes, and Katje, she is smart, she
pisses that Blicero off (BFscene) and she tells the American
that she knows he doesn't care for her, doesn't even want
her, only what THEY want and control wants her, like an A4
wants London screaming with her legs in the air. Yup,
Slothrop/Orpheus has lost his Eurydice.
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