NPPF - Your clothes are on fire!

Glenn Scheper glenn_scheper at earthlink.net
Wed Jul 16 12:24:44 CDT 2003


Vladimir Nabokov would not have suggested that someday,
someone might interpret his lewd works as highly moral,
--unless he knew such a re-interpretation was possible.

I have created the epochal revelation of Jesus Christ;
mapping all religious terms onto a little-known domain
of monadic sexuality; giving hard corrigible referents
to that which was only divergent speculation and dogma.

In two words: autofellatio (hereafter AF) and psychosis.
They make the youthful death and rebirth of the phoenix,
at once a descent into Hades and the Christian metanoia,
as is portrayed in _Hamlet_ and Kafka's _Metamorphosis_.

Cracking _Revelation_ leads me to believe there are four
types of people in each gender, differentiated according
to the whether they were subject to maternal cunnilingus
and paternal fellatio (FF), which (FF) is well described
in Goethe's _Elfin Koenig_, a father slaying his own son.

If both occur to a male, at Revelation's octant Thyatira,
subsequent AF will recover a pre-linguistic memory of FF.
This onslaught of inexpressible, direct gnosis caused me,
in the day of my psychosis, to tell my father I believed
I had to kill him, a father become to me uncle--Claudius.
The OEdipal ideation included the idea to rape my mother.
The idea immobilized me several years, like Gregor Samsa.

Because AF collapses the three OEdipal distinctions: of
life and death, of parent and child, of male and female;
the son becomes his own father, genderless, hence mother
too, and with a Buddhist undecidability, alive and dead.

Western culture hangs from, oscillates on, the amalgam
of Greek Ulysses, who did not plow his son, and Jewish
Abraham, who apparently did, creating in Issac his ram,
a Smyrna archetype, like a generational dropped stitch.

No doubt Nabokov's purview of these essential matters
will perfect my own decoding of Revelation, even as I
hope you will find my reading-into of various authors
--the books were opened, and the dead were judged out
of the things written therein--may illuminate Nabokov.

Coincidentally, like _Pale Fire_, my web site has two
major essays: A large, lax compendium of correlations
and observations, _The Word of God: The Production of
Christ_, and more formal _Heroic Alterity_, emulating
a scholarly thesis, my hope for publication abandoned.

Already in PF, to mull a few past posts and easy points:
A bird is, I tell you, a standard poetic metaphor of AF.

The Waxwing was slain, first in a mirror (AF) and later
under a wheelbarrow (death), which Shade cannot record.

Hazel is in the eighth and excluded archetype, a female
paralleling male Thyatira, without letter in Revelation
because of her impossibility of being--I will kill [her
mother, Jezebel's] children with death--That is, by FF.

As Nabokov's father was shot, and with AF (and various
other acts as I tell) able to confuse paternity, Shade
and Kinbote may portray this same father-son confusion,
as when Nietzsche, whose father died when he was young,
said that his life was a paradox, roughly "As my father
I am already dead, and as my mother I continue to live."

Kinbote studies Shade, his Son. Aunt Maud is his mother.
Kinbote was Charles, deposed the moment he abused Shade.
Aha, No! He reigned as King over Shade until Shade's AF.
Well, it will help when I finish PF. I am up to a Vague
(Cloud==AF) King Alfin (Elfin Koenig=FF) pool reference.

> Frank has acknowledged the safe return of the galleys
> I had been sent here...
This is correct only if the galleys are Kinbote himself,
as, AF as speech act satisfies the Word which is itself.

> ... being forced to orally pleasure Aunt Maud?
Beautiful! I read over that text without recognizing it.

> ... give me more about the Black Rose Paladins!
Paladin is a pregnant female carrying hope of salvation.
Also male Zeus, bearing Athena in his head is a paladin.
Such is a knower, fallen in a deep crevice of abjection.

Atop Canto three, "l'if" for me accesses the English if,
a mere conjunction in text, but for a software engineer,
if indicates a decision point, bifurcating world states.
I had resolved the Taoist "The truth is neither this nor
that" using schizophrenic inclusion:" "The truth is this
AND that" whereas Nabokov appears to have resolved it as
the possiblility of choice: "The truth is this OR that".
Thus applied to the Cartesian divide, Nabokov shew faith
in a realm of consciousness, and disdained several types
who choose the body: Freud, who called fantasy psychical
overvaluation; Crowley, who made self-will his only law;
and Buddhism, who's undecidability is refusal to choose.

I have already seen much to comment upon, in due course.
If you don't like my hypotheses, you can stop your ears.

Yours truly,
Glenn Scheper
http://home.earthlink.net/~glenn_scheper/
glenn_scheper + at + earthlink.net
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