Eddins on Blicero

jbor jbor at bigpond.com
Sat Apr 14 18:03:49 CDT 2001


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>From: Terrance <lycidas2 at earthlink.net>


> However, just as we were able
> to settle the matter of the 175s, your argument had no
> textual support

      The phantom SS command here is based not so much on the one the
    prisoners knew at Dora as on what they inferred to be the Rocket-
    structure next door at the Mittelwerke. The A4, in its way, was also
    concealed by an uncrossable wall that separated real pain and terror
    from summoned deliverer. Weissmann/Blicero's presence crossed the
    wall, warping, shivering into the fetid bunkrooms, with the same
    reach toward another shape as words trying to make their way through
    dreams. What the 175s heard from their real SS guards there was enough
    to elevate Weissman on the spot -- they, his own brother-elite, *didn't
    know* what this man was up to. When prisoners came in earshot the guards
    stopped whispering. But their fear kept echoing: fear not of Weissmann
    personally, but of the time itself, a time so desperate that *he* could
    now move through the Mittelwerke as if he owned it, a time which was
    granting him a power different from that of Auschwitz or Buchenwald, a
    power they couldn't have borne themselves. . . . (666.26)

>  and was shown to be a misreading, we can do
> the same here with the Blicero cycle. We can start with Pan.
> Since Eddins has a lot to say about Pan I think this is a
> good place to begin. Page 720 of GR. If this is ok by you
> let me know.




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