Blicero

[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" 

"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---" 


Poetry, Empire, and Arrogance. We will soon turn to
Mondaugen's Story, where this love of Empire is also
present. Weissmann 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 to accommodate
the changes in the 
politics of the day and his solipsistic, grand delusional,
perverted misreadings.

He also misreads Rilke's notion of Pain. 
Weissmann is solipsistic, it is HIS pain, his self-conscious
reading. 
HIS seeks an inverted or negative  physical correlate for
the
beautiful spiritual poetic Pure Being of Rilke's. He 
Projects a color negative of Rilke's yellow and blue gentian
onto the boy. This is a major theme of GR, of Pynchon, The
Word against the Earth. Gottfried who will be sacrificed,
not Enzian--red, brown, black, but
Gottfried--yellow, blue, white.