1.Weissmann/Blicero & Rilke

[Terrance]

"The Blicero I loved was a very young man, in love with
empire, poetry, his own arrogance. Those all must have been
important to me once" 

And
"He was changing. Terribly
toad to prince, prince to
fabulous monster
he has transcended. Even if he is only
dead. He's gone beyond HIS pain, HIS sin---driven deep into
Their province, into control, synthesis and control, further
than---" 

GR.660-661
Poetry Empire and arrogance. Again, see Mondaugen's Story in
V. for the love of Empire, the history is provided, but lets
see what happens in GR when this arrogant man gets a copy of
Rilke hot off the press. It is Rilke's Tenth Elegy that he
loves most. He identifies with the newly-dead youth and he
makes several changes in his reading of Rilke, all of them
obviously misreading. The newly-dead youth? What does that
mean? He mis reads Rilke's notion of Pain,  right? His
misreads the city of Pain, right? GR.98 What or who is the
witch? He embraced the Reich flame, but he misread Rilke
again, the flame, right? When he sees the royal moths are
only being used he changes his reading of Rilke again, again
he misreads the most fundamental of Rilke's poetic ideas.
What of his relationship with the Herero boy and Katje? We
need to understand how Rilke figures in these two important
relationships, right? TRP, as he will in V. and M&D uses the
crossing of the tropic zones to symbolize a change in
consciousness here. Read it closely and Mondaugen's Story
makes sense, mirror time and tropical reversal and sickness
and here TRP re-works it with Weissmann. Weissmann is
solipsistic, it is HIS pain, his self-conscious reading, HIS
desire to, in a tortured misreading of Rilke's Ninth Elegy,
to find an inverted or negative  physical correlate for the
beautiful spiritual poetic Pure Being of Rilke's that he
Projects a color negative of Rilke's yellow and blue gentian
onto the boy. The word against the earth. Remember that the
in the Ninth Elegy the pure Word is the simple things man
praises as opposed to the mysterious earth from which they
flower springs. Of course Weissmann's reifications here
involve mirror metaphysics just as the other readings of
German youth involve Daemon metaphysics preparing them to
welcome Hitler, cause it is Gottfried who will be
sacrificed, not Enzian-red, brown, black, but
Gottfried-yellow, blue, white. Weissmann is not content to
identify simply with his distorted reading of Rilke's
newly-dead youth, no, he's arrogant, he has to be Rilke's
HERO and he believes, like those missionaries, in Blasphemy,
the boy uses the Herero name for God, and the resonance of
the sacred Name fills him insanely with lust, lust in the
face-the mask-of instant talion from outside the fire
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