blicero's sexuality.2

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>From: Terrance <lycidas2 at earthlink.net>
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Eddins:

> After a coldly
> technical discussion of the beam scanning apparatus needed
> to render the "Imipoletic Surface...erectile,"

Actually, this is alternative b) of the three methods for "signaling *to*
the plastic surface". Eddins takes one sentence from the section *out of
context* and refers to it as "coldly technical", which it isn't really
anyway. Indeed, the discussion of the characteristics of Imipolex G in this
section of the text can hardly be described as "coldly technical". See
699.23-36 in particular: "What are stars but points in the body of God where
we insert the healing needles of our terror and longing? [ ... ] " etc !!!

> the Swiftian
> projector

Say what? It's a parenthesis, another point of view, an alternative
narrative agency, a *dialectic*.

> touches on the question of "What lies just
> beneath,"

And that would be the skin and flesh of the human subject, wouldn't it?

> only to conclude that ["]we need not dwell here on
> the Primary Problem, namely that everything below the
> plastic film does after all lie in the Region of
> Uncertainty, except to emphasize to beginning students who
> may be prone to Schwarmerei, that terms referring to the
> Subimipolexity such as 'Core' and 'Center of Internal
> Energy' possess, outside the theoretical, no more reality
> than do terms such as 'Supersonic Region' or 'Center of
> Gravity' in other areas of Science." (p.7000).

So, "Subimipolexity" would refer to the human organism, wouldn't it? Isn't
the parenthetic aside (Eddins' "Swiftian projector"!) in fact challenging
the "reality" of the "theoretical" conceptions of body and soul (i.e. "Core"
and "Center of Internal Energy") as somehow outside (or above) the rest of
what constitutes the material world? Isn't this the "Primary Problem"???

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