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Terrance lycidas2 at earthlink.net
Sun Mar 25 20:01:15 CST 2001



Terrance wrote:
> 
> [Paramour or catamite,  Gottfried is a boy who has sex with
> a man.

S/B a young man, playing a boy, who has sex with a man. 

Although Gottfried seems to be all of these and much much
more. 
The Hero of the anti-natural order, the Hero of the new
rocket dispensation. In Milton's PL, god treats christ in
much the same way, at the last moment he is asked not to be
submissive, but to choose to be sent down to earth to be
crucified on a tree to restore the "natural" order and end
the cycle of infection and death, but of course all of the
allusions here, and there are dozens,  are ironic, for two
reasons, first, there is nothing to be restored, earth or
paradise has not been lost, not yet anyway, and it is
exactly this need or desire to regain or transcend the cycle
of infection and death, to give order, history, an in the
beginning, in the middle, and the end, that drives the god
blicero.



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