Tristan and Isolde

[Terrance]

lorentzen-nicklaus wrote:
> 
>  even if true, this, of course, would not change at all the crucial issue
>  (sexual perversity as mechanism of the historically increasing enfetishment of
>  the inanimate?) of my question.
> 
> kfl //:: ps: terrance, please put your little brother "big one" to sleep. he
>              sucks.

I did not post that. 


Falstaff was a coward and even Shakespeare put flat players
on the stage, but these only reflected and served to round
out his greatest creations, and here I must agree with
Bloom, that none is greater than Falstaff. Let fortune favor
the coward, the brave have their domineering violence and
their supercilious deconstructions.   


On a symbolic level Captain Blicero sees in the V-2 Rocket
and its construction and all that goes into it, a means to
penetrate Absolute Being, the Angelic Order in GR. As we
learn here, Weissmann symbolizes not simply the  "sexual
perversity" of pre-Hitlerite Germany but a longing, a plan,
a getting back of the protectorate, the use and abuse of
Others, both the "natural" and indigenous peoples dominated
by the brave Germans of the "white outposts" and the "anti
natural" business and science communities, indeed the German
people, and the Western world, by the bureaucratic Nazi and
the Cartel of GR. 

The perverse stasis, a still point, a polar whiteness, is a
Return to colonial genocide and V's habitat, a State and
state of siege. 

These horrors, the sexual perversity that includes slaves
and murder (historical facts),  are as much the symptoms of
that moral breakdown as  affects of that dictatorship's
attempt to determine and reform  the moral breakdown and of
course they are symptoms of a larger breakdown, one that
includes the Virgin become dynamo. Again, Eddin's reading of
P's nostalgia is of use here. 

>From one of P's sources, *Love In The Western World*, a
book, as Denis de Rougemont explains years after it has been
misread by many, including Sartre btw, that P makes his own.

But Hitler's dictatorship, for the very reason that it
claimed to operate for racial and military ends, was bound
to address itself at the the very outset to repairing this
breakdown in the nation's morals. To begin with, the
anti-social ideal of 'happiness' and that of 'living
dangerously' were countered by the promotion of a collective
ideal. 'Gemeinnutz geht vor Eigennutz!' The general interest
comes before that of the individuals! Next, by means of
every spectacular, didactic, and even religious instrument
that it could devise, Hitlerism effected the extraordinary
transference (1)
which resulted in making the one legitimate and object of
passion the concept of a Nation symbolized in its Fuhrer.

The Totalitarian temptation is still there. We are not
forbidden to imagine that our democracies will one day yield
to it in the name of some 'science' or sociological hygiene.
The enforced practice of eugenics may succeed there where
all moral doctrines have failed, resulting in the effective
disappearance of any 'spiritual'--and hence artificial--need
of passion. The cycle of courtly love would be complete. The
Europe of passion will be no more. A new and unforeseeable
Europe would be taking its rise in the laboratory.   

(1) for the use of this term, see the chapter "The
Transplanting Of Passion Into Politics," where Hitler is
quoted.  D extrapolates and we can also turn to P's use of
Weber and "charisma," but here it is fro LWW: 

"the passionate influence over the masses described by
Hitler is accompanied by a rationalizing influence over
individuals. Furthermore, this influence is not obtained by
some agitator, but by the Leader who incarnates the Nation.
This is why the transference of passion from private to
public life has resulted in an unprecedented concentration
of power. It will need a superhuman passion to orchestrate
the stupendous catastrophe of passion become totalitarian."

"Love" & "Death"

"It began when Weissmann brought him to Europe: a discovery
that love, among these men, once past the simple feel and
orgasming of it, had to do with masculine technologies, with
contracts, with winning and losing. Demanded in his own
case, that he enter the service of the Rocket...He was led
to believe that by understanding the Rocket, he would come
to understand truly his manhood...." GR.324

"Death in its ingenuity has contrived to make the father and
the son beautiful to each other as life has made male and
female." GR.723

How brave they were indeed: 

http://www.africasia.com/icpubs/na/mar00/nacs0301.htm