Subject: NPPF Canto Three

[Glenn Scheper]

300 lines doesn't post well. Now trying small part #2:

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Mrs Z., AC, is hyped on Richard Crashaw because Crashaw,
a clear AF, put forth unusual poems--lauding female AC!:

http://www.newadvent.org/cathen/04467a.htm
CATHOLIC ENCYCLOPEDIA: Richard Crashaw

http://www.geocities.com/Athens/Troy/1787/cra-vaughan.html
richard crashaw, henry vaughan - classical christian poetry

http://www.bartleby.com/101/338.html
338. A Hymn to Saint Teresa. Richard Crashaw. The Oxford Book of English
Verse

http://www.bartleby.com/236/29.html
29. The Flaming Heart by Richard Crashaw. Nicholson & Lee, eds. 1917.
The Oxford Book of English Mystical Verse

http://www.theotherpages.org/poems/crashaw1.html
Poets' Corner - Richard Crashaw - Selected Works

http://eir.library.utoronto.ca/rpo/display/poem594.html
RPO -- Richard Crashaw : Wishes to his (Supposed) Mistress

http://www.bartleby.com/101/337.html
337. Weeper. Richard Crashaw. The Oxford Book of English Verse

http://www.bartleby.com/101/339.html
339. Upon the Book and Picture of Saint Teresa. Richard Crashaw. The
Oxford Book of English Verse

http://www.bartleby.com/101/342.html
342. An Epitaph upon Husband and Wife. Richard Crashaw. The Oxford Book
of English Verse

I read in him a theological position that an afterlife
may exist for such persons, and only for such persons,
which is one possibility that I ponder among several.

That final URL probably has in view the self-wedding.

You know it's funny, I tried to explain in my youth
to my then girl-friend, now wife, how I had married
my left-side to my right-side. She tried to beat it
out of me. Beatings did what doctors never could do.
To her, I attribute my remission of bipolar symptoms.

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L529 - ... Plane / Off Hesperus

Both Poe and Longfellow are on my AF radar screen,
so if Poe attributes some truth to Wreck, he sees
the poetic vocabulary in use, but may not have a
breadth to encompass incest, merely feels disgust.

The father seems to be active agent of the Wreck,
and the symbols seem consistent with coitus. Yet,
there is a possibility of her own AC collapsing
the three Oedipal distinctions (Viz. parent/child,
alive/dead, male/female - from D&G Anti-Oedipus)
and drawing the father in. (Similarly, Elfin K.)

L567 - time

These problems arise from envy/resentment. If you
lay your cards out, full information, accept the
state of the universe and go on from there--gone.

L648 - nothing

I think the depression in metanoia comes from the
disappointment due to an insight of the reduction
of all previously transcendental symbols, and the
rapid conclusion that nothing remains after them.

L662-4 Who rides?

Elfin Koenig.

L683-4 - Crashaw Club ... Why poetry is meaningful to us.

Behind exoteric poesie is a wealth of insight into
the experiential tantric domain, full of apparently
effective influences upon and insights into people,
not to mention the life-task of orderly exposition.

L702 - rubber sun

1) suggests Kristeva's "Too Long in the Black Sun"
2) overhead pen is

L704 - interconnected

As I said of Pynchon's Imopolex G, the newly interior
ejacu1ation has projected itself upon the boundary of
the body. The AF is not merely coming, he *IS* coming.

Yours truly,
Glenn Scheper
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