NPPF - Canto Four

[Glenn Scheper]

Part 2 of 3

L897-8 - between wick and grimace ... invites the wicked nick

As I shew in TSE's _wasteland_ the tongue is a candle's wick.

So the space between then would be interior to the mouth,
and pen is is commonly written sword (and semen is commonly
written blood, if my AF hermeneutics are true). Wicked is a
nod to the preterist, who cannot distinguish God from evil
in all that is numinous (which BTW, is from nodding -> AF!).


L916 - the sensation for which poets hope

As my cataloging of AF fellows reveals, selected poets are
the great repository of AF imagery, after ancient religions.

I recall Baudelaires' "In studious awe the poets brood /
before my monumental pose," Hey, Voila--in the poem _Beauty_:

http://home.carolina.rr.com/alienfamily/17.htm
 BEAUTY
 I am beautiful, O mortals! Like a dream in stone,
 And my breast, upon which each is bruised in turn,
 Inspires in a poet love silent and eternal
 Like that of the material|clay flesh and bronze bone.
 On my azure throne I sit like a sphinx|misunderstood;
 I unite a heart of snow with the whiteness of swans;
 I hate the way lines are displaced from innate bonds,
 And never do I laugh or cry as I should.
 The poets, before my great attitudes
 I seem to steal from haughty monuments
 Waste their days of austere study getting just the right mood;
 For I fascinate these docile lovers of sense,
 With pure mirrors that make all things more beautiful:
 My eyes, my eyes large with a clarity eternal.


L901 - Adam's apple

Or, the forbidden fruit.


L918 - the immediate phrase

The only word not mediated by discourse, nor by the other
subject, is the self-reflexive carnal speech act: AF, AC.


L922 - Our Cream

Capitalized, to be annotated by Kinbote as a bubbly foam
(although referring to an advertisement - a red herring)
sure catches my attention, like the difference in simply
semen and a semen and saliva mixture. Aphrodite was born
of the foam of the sea, from some poor god's severed pen
is. Nietzsche specified foam in this clearly AF sequence:

_The Portable Nietzsche_ pg. 99 _The Gay Science_ [310]: _Will and Wave_.
> How greedily this wave approaches,
> as if there were some objective to be reached!
> How, with awe-inspiring haste,
> it crawls into the inmost nooks of the rocky cliff!
> It seems that it wants to anticipate somebody;
> it seems that something is hidden there,
> something of value, high value.
> And now it comes back, a little more slowly,
> still quite white with excitement...
> Carry on as you please, you pranksters;
> roar with delight and malice - or dive again,
> pouring your emeralds into the deepest depths,
> and cast your endless white manes of FOAM and spray over them
>  - everything suits me, for everything suits you so well,
> and I am so well disposed toward you for everything:
> how could I think of betraying you! For - heed it well!
>  - I know you and your secret, I know your kind!
> You and I - are we not of one kind?
> You and I - do we not have one secret?

Yours truly,
Glenn Scheper
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