Polemos Gudam

[Jane Sweet]

Scott Badger wrote:
> 
> BTW Terrance, *was* Imipolex G invented in 1939?  Try following its trail on
> GR250.
> 
> Scott Badger

Thanks Scott.  

Yes it's an difficult, mysterious trail. 

Imidazole, imide, imipramine, imitation. see also Polimex
and Mipolam. Gk.  polemos War, silicon, silicone, Si-N. Sin?
Maybe the Jesuit has the answer? Critical mass and Return?
(GR.539) 


"When it has passed beyond what we called the beginning of
its 'critical point of socialization' the mass of Mankind,
let this be my conclusion, will penetrate for the first time
into the environment which is biologically requisite for the
wholeness of its task. Life itself-Life is Irreversible.

-- Teilhard de Chardin


On 249 we learn that it was developed in 1939, years before
its
time...traceable back to early research done at du Pont.
Note the capitalization of "The Great Synthesist." Synthesis
and Control? To page 660, and Enzian and Katja talking of
Blicero:

We could have driven under him in the sky today and never
seen. Whatever happened at the end, he has transcended. Even
if he's only dead. He's gone beyond his pain, his
sin--driven deep into Their province, into synthesis and
control, further than-- well, he was about to say "we" but
"I" seems better after all, I haven't transcended. I've only
been elevated. That must be as empty as things get: it's
worse than being told you wont have to die by someone you
can't believe in....

And note that Katja calls Blicero a "dear albatross..."
(Imipolex G is also called an albatross, and while having an
albatross  seems little more than  hackneyed literary
allusion, a cliché even, the connection could be important.
Don't
have time to digress about Enzian, Katja, Slothrop, Freedom
and Sin, his sin, S-IN, but again, the connection to the
Jesuit might be important. 

In the sky? Blicero could be in the sky and they wouldn't
know it. Imipolex is also in the sky and they wouldn't know
it. Driven into Their province, into Synthesis and Control?

To page 164 and Rathenau, the philosopher, not the Jesuit
philosopher, but the financial philosopher with a vision of
the postwar state, a rational structure, based on the one
engineered in Germany for fighting the World War, and "if
one were paranoid enough--seem[s] to be a collaboration
between both sides of the Wall, matter and spirit."

 The Wall? What the hell is that? First to page 666, where
"Weissmann/Blicero's presence crossed the wall..." The wall
that is "uncrossable." How did he manage that? Also,
remember that the Bishop, a Roman Catholic Bishop and also a
chess Bishop, dressed in red vestment carries the messages
of holy strategies and memoranda of conscience to the
ruinous "interface" (again, what the hell is that?)  between
the visable Lager and the invisable SS. Why? Because Blicero
must be told. 

Back to 164 and Sachsa's lips are moving, the path is clear,
but the spirit says, "you are constrained over there, to
follow it in time, one step after another. But here it is
possible to see the whole shape at once--not for me, I'm not
that far along--but many know it as a clear
presence...'shape isn't really the right word...Let me be
honest with you..." 

Now, P has a big problem here, how can
he describe a mystery, the "heavens" or "Olympus" or the
other side?  Milton's hell is beautiful and his Satan grand
and much more human than God and Jesus and the Angels, and
thus more interesting, more "heroic" not only to Romantics.
And
there is a reason I suspect why people read Dante's Inferno
and not his vision of Paradise, but I digress, what P does
here is what others have done before him, he has a spirit, a
pilgrim, one in the know, a Gnostic,  on the other side, 
speak through a medium on this side, but even that spirit
has a limited view. And  language cannot describe what is on
the other side or even if it could, those not on the other
side could not grasp it, in part because they are limited by
their own minds, language, so on. 

 His study spanned the decade of the twenties. And Note too,
the delight of  the Fetishist, the convenience to the Armed
Insurgent. 


tbc