The Death Cycle

David Morris fqmorris at hotmail.com
Fri Mar 23 09:32:51 CST 2001


I'm sorry, but a typo on that last post from me made it incomprehensible.  
Please delete it.  Let me try it again:

>From: Terrance
>
>David Morris wrote:
> > But the other aspect of the "Badass" is what links him to Blicero: the 
>Mutant, the Monster, the Repressed.  Blicero is a Mutant, a product of the 
>Death System.  His goal is an END to the cycle of death, to transcend and 
>cross over.
>
>I can't agree, because what he says is,
>
>"I want to break out--to leave this cycle of infection and
>death. I want to be taken in love: so taken that you and I
>will be gathered, inseparable, in the radiance of what we
>would be come...." GR.724
>
>The "cycle of infection and death" is Earth's cycle (Rilke, not Weissman's 
>misreading of Rilke), the cycle of life, of Gravity and the fecund force

This is where our readings part on this subject.  I don't see the "cycle of 
infection and death" which _Blicero_ refers to as Nature's cycle.  The 
infection/death cycle is that of Their System in which Fathers infect Sons 
in perpetuity all in the service of the Mad Bus Driver.

Your statement above that this cycle is "(Rilke, not Weissman's misreading 
of Rilke)" is illogical because this is Weissman speaking, isn't it?  It 
would have to mean whatever Weissman thinks it means.  Blicero wants to 
transcend the system which produced him (through annihilation it would 
seem), Their Death System.  At least that's how I see it.

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