Don Quixote

[Glenn Scheper]

I would read them both! I suffered only 25 chapters of
DQ to smooth-scroll past my lazy eyes today without you,
but it's the usual katabasis: Direct gnosis gives life
a new meaning, worth shedding the quotidian to pursue.

An eternal DQ's expansive mania and ideas of reference
are balanced by Sancho's relenting. Such a split person
can survive anongst non-eternal people, whose altruism
derived from the prisoners' dilemma is always unstable.

Dulcinea resembles the First-Last (female) Alpha-Omega
of Revelation, that each Beginning-Ending (male) Alpha
-Omega anticipates as future bride in a New Jerusalem.

The tale of Chrysostom and Marcea show Knights of the
Rueful Countenance (or perhaps Infinite Resignation?)
necessarily have one termagant to temper an otherwise
exceeding gentle personality: That river of hate told
recently, invidia herself, a negative entity defining
herself by all the persons she is not like, disliking.

Striving for a definition, Charon diabolizes her mate:

http://www.everypoet.com/archive/poetry/dante/dante_i_03.htm

We to the place have come, where I have told thee
  Thou shalt behold the people dolorous
  Who have foregone the good of intellect." 
...
This way there never passes a good soul;
  And hence if Charon doth complain of thee,
  Well mayst thou know now what his speech imports." 

To read DC, choose a free online Longfellow translation,
for I recognize in Longfellow our fellow, thus he would
not muffle the tantric iconography of our fellow Dante.
A translator out of the simulacrum will pick available
words waveringly, without referents, contributing noise.

After one night's rant, I fled before sunrise with my
virgin copy of Portable Dante: Mandelbaum translation
to a chance MacDonald's, and read/skimmed/napped the
whole thing in one day in my car. PD included the
essential _Vita Nuova_, demonstrating how a tantrist
fetishizes the Word to access the transcendent Fuck:
This Shekinah is Dulcinea; Dante named her Beatrice;

She is contrasted to our temporal yoke with BABYLON,
who saith in her heart, "I sit a queen, and am no
widow": Babylon rejects our account of poetic death.

Cf. a barking dog in Baudelaire's Carrion; Cf. when
Nietzsche's Zarathustra counsels the sheperd at the
portal to bite the head off the snake in his mouth.

And of course, you recognize Dennis Flange's Cindy:
When I took a tape measure to the mirror and posted
that Nerissa is the 3.5 foot folded Flange, I erred.
Nerissa is a folded female, not a mere possibility,
but now movingly documented thanks to the Internet.

You need tools for so many words! Check out my new
Calyps freeware: Use it to wrap text or html files
at clauses, good for reading in (offsite) "Reading
Acceleration Machine", or its own smooth scrolling.
Click on a word to see a KWIC word study. Click a
match in the KWIC list to open the source location.
Some day, it will also query the Internet widely.

Yours truly,
Glenn Scheper
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