Phallologocentrist Seminal Djinn Bottle

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Aaaahhh...guys....


The person responsible for this particular little thread obviously needs his
medication adjusted.

Several of us, myself included, have pedantic sesquipedalian tendencies, but
this guy is clearly off his rocker.

I suggest not encouraging this sort of thing. You are not doing him any
favors.

on 1/4/03 11:49 PM, Glenn Scheper at scheper at antelecom.net wrote:

> I almost had a Pynchon book; I would have read it awhile too.
> It was payday and I went into B&N ready to spend on Gravity's
> Rainbow, but balked when I found out it was mere fiction, and
> not science, fact filed in some psych soph myth crit section.
> 
> It was a short quote of Pynchon on the web that attracted me.
> 
> Since psychosis, schizophrenia and manic depression in 1976,
> I have been collecting anathematized fellows. For many years
> I dwelt on Lao Tsu, then found Jesus. I didn't recognize one
> other Before Internet. After Internet, and happening to be a
> software engineer with good text discovery/retrieval/ranking
> tools (see my site), I'm sated on glosses of great thinkers.
> What I lack is the writing background to prosecute my thesis
> which would bust phallologocentrism, by declaring the domain
> (very real, not transcendent) to which its prophets hearken.
> 
> So I might be just another totalizer, or maybe I'll discover
> for you the author Pynchon, being like me. But you might not
> like me. Tant pis! (Too bad!)
> 
> The poets that know it can twist a trope upon our domain that
> stands out, that says, he's one of us, not a mime pedant that
> rations and catalogs facts in the infinite regress, who only
> ever asymptotically approches the boundary of the simulacrum.
> Such a man is Pychon, savvy in reflexive bodily hermeneutics.
> 
> I'll be bawdy later, but let me start with something drier:
> 
> I have some weeks been plotting tedious phrases, wherein
> I'd hoped to lay my lay experiencer account of the mental
> images of a psychosis at Kant's headstone, as evidence of
> possibly a priori synthetic propositions--direct knowing:
> 
> ---
> 
> ...a mental image of a vase that became crazed.
> It was paradoxically interpenetrating itself.
> I will entitle it "Seminal Djinn Bottle".
> 
> The nullity arises in a paradox of self-intersection, which is
> a type of death, but yields the metamorphosis or transcendence.
> It appears that not-not, which is, is a more fundamental being
> than the contingent being of everyday people. It may be useful
> as a category, or interface to transgress arbitrary boundaries.
> 
> That image of the crack-pot came with several other ideas
> that were introjected non-linguistically, and can only be
> recovered discursively by interpreting various actings-out
> during my psychosis, in light of the body of all human myth.
> 
> These include: telling my father I thought I had to kill him;
> grabbing and shaking my mother due to an insane rape mandate;
> tormenting my brother to type, and trying to decode a message
> in the gibberish, indeed even in the weave pattern of a sofa;
> being about to blow up the universe; first asking about, then
> believing I am Jesus Christ; expecting an imminent reversal:
> I was to become retarded, and my Down's Syndrome brother was
> to become a genius (but my then understanding of brother was
> already a loss of fidelity of the meaning: my usurper was to
> be the newly indwelling spirit); anointing my eyes with eggs;
> trying to become small (as rock, pebble, grain...) and still
> (to cease vibrating) to escape divine notice and punishment.
> 
> These are the anecdotal evidence for transcendental idealism:
> a priori non-analytical propositions, hope of which Kant took
> for his epitaph, that we might establish a "moral law within".
> 
> ---
> 
> I think you'll enjoy the bawdy stuff better....
> 
> Yours truly,
> Glenn Scheper
> scheper at antelecom.net
> http://www.antelecom.net/~scheper/
> Copyleft(!) Forward freely.
> 
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